PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte is expected to be injected with Russia’s vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) by May of 2021, Malacañang said on Thursday, as the Philippines plans to launch its clinical trials in October.

The 75-year-old Duterte, who volunteered to be among the first to be inoculated in public, might be immunized with the Russian vaccine by May 1, 2021 at the earliest, his spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said.

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