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‘BFF prices’ but no corruption: Manila defends Philippines’ deal with China’s Sinovac for CoronaVac vaccine
Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biontech will sell its Covid-19 vaccine to the Philippines at “Best Friends Forever prices”, Philippine officials have claimed as they denied allegations by senators that corruption in the procurement process was leaving the country short-changed.Presidential spokesman Harry Roque and the Philippine government’s “vaccine tsar” Ricardo Galvez both defended the price the country was paying for the CoronaVac vaccine as similar to that being paid by other Asian…