THE vaccine donation from the United States may be one of the reasons President Rodrigo Duterte lost interest in abolishing the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), his spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said on Monday.

"Consider the totality of circumstances. There's a good possibility that [it] was part of the equation," Roque said in explaining the President's decision to retain the VFA.

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