{"id":9843,"date":"2021-01-18T14:02:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T14:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118243\/bff-prices-no-corruption-manila-defends-philippines-deal-chinas"},"modified":"2021-01-18T14:02:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T14:02:35","slug":"bff-prices-but-no-corruption-manila-defends-philippines-deal-with-chinas-sinovac-for-coronavac-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/bff-prices-but-no-corruption-manila-defends-philippines-deal-with-chinas-sinovac-for-coronavac-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018BFF prices\u2019 but no corruption: Manila defends Philippines\u2019 deal with China\u2019s Sinovac for CoronaVac vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biontech will sell its Covid-19 vaccine to the Philippines at \u201cBest Friends Forever prices\u201d, 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\u2019s \u201cvaccine tsar\u201d Ricardo Galvez both defended the price the country was paying for the CoronaVac vaccine as similar to that being paid by other Asian\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118243\/bff-prices-no-corruption-manila-defends-philippines-deal-chinas\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biontech will sell its Covid-19 vaccine to the Philippines at \u201cBest Friends Forever prices\u201d, Philippine officials have claimed as they denied allegations by senators that corruption in the procurement process was lea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":915,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9844,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843\/revisions\/9844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}