ANTI-crime advocates will ask President Rodrigo Duterte to put three regions in Luzon where the anti-dengue vaccines were distributed under a state of emergency so that government agencies could better coordinate assistance to the victims.

Dante Jimenez, chairman of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC), said a presidential declaration in Metro Manila, Central Luzon and Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) was needed to ensure that those who received Dengvaxia would be given sufficient medical care.

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