Expect more deaths due to scant Covid-19 vaccine supply: Duterte


Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrives for a meeting with members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines on Thursday April 15, 2021. - AP

MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): President Rodrigo Duterte warned the public Thursday (April 15) night to expect more coronavirus-related deaths due to the continuing unavailability of Covid-19 vaccine supply.

In his second ‘Talk to the People’ address this week following his video call with Russia Pres. Vladimir Putin, Duterte bared he did not know when the Philippines would get enough Covid-19 vaccines to inoculate all Filipinos.

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