AFP gave an update on PSG members who were vaccinated before FDA approval.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Friday gave an update on the members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) who were vaccinated before FDA approval.
In a statement, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesperson Maj. Gen. Edgard Arevalo said that no serious side effects had been found among PSG members who were vaccinated with the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine.
“No adverse side effects as we speak,” Arevalo said in a statement.
The Department of Health (DOH) stated on its website that the side effects of vaccination included redness, pain, itchiness, or swelling on the arm wherein the vaccine was usually injected.
Other side effects, according to DOH, included weakness or fatigue, fever, headache, diarrhea, dizziness, or nausea.
Arevalo also said that they’re pleased that PSG members who had volunteered to be vaccinated in the pursuit of their mission to protect President Rodrigo Duterte didn’t only perform a selfless act, but they’re also safe as an aftermath of the vaccination.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted the Presidential Security Group’s application for a “compassionate special permit” to use 10,000 Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses just a few months after the presidential guards were drawn into a controversy when some of the PSG members got inoculated even before the FDA approval of the said vaccines.
The FDA authorization would allow the Presidential Security Group and dependents of its members to jump the line on the Philippine government’s list of priority groups for inoculation which ranked men in uniform as 4th priority in getting the COVID-19 vaccines.
Moreover, Arevalo said that the Armed Forces of the Philippines would give vaccination priority to its medical or health workers on the frontline of the fight against the coronavirus disease, which made up 25% of the entire AFP manpower.
The Philippines was still waiting for initial deliveries of other COVID-19 vaccines.
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