The chief of the Philippines' Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday, May 6, that he expects to receive applications for market use of COVID-19 vaccines by late 2021.on Thursday morning, FDA Director General Eric Domingo said this as he explained that before a certificate of product registration is issued, a vaccine company must first complete the phase 3 trials.
A CPR is a certificate issued by the FDA that would allow a product to be commercially available in the market. So far, the use of COVID-19 vaccines in the Philippines is under emergency use authorization granted by the FDA. The Philippines has so far granted EUAs to seven vaccine companies: Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca, Gamaleya Institute, Sinovac Biotech, Johnson & Johnson, Bharat Biotech, and Moderna.
The Philippines, which is battling one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in Southeast Asia, has so far inoculated 1,744,649 of its 110-million population. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr said on Tuesday, May 4, that due to India's move to focus its vaccine supplies on its own population, the Philippines may have to lower its vaccination goal to only half the population in 2021.
don't want to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The survey, however, was conducted before the record-high surge in cases in the country. –