THE news report that the Philippine government and the British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca were scheduled to sign an agreement on Friday must have shocked knowledgeable people, especially those in the medical profession.

The agreement supposedly entailed the purchase by the government of two million doses of Covid-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca.

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