Duterte to traders helping in COVID response: ‘We will remember you after this’ | Inquirer News

Duterte to traders helping in COVID response: ‘We will remember you after this’

/ 09:00 AM January 14, 2021

MANILA, Philippines — “We will remember you after this.”

President Rodrigo Duterte gave this assurance to private firms and businessmen helping the government in its COVID-19 pandemic response.

“I’m thanking you. It’s a big deal really for you to be conscious also of the problem and trying to give a helping hand. We will remember you after this. And more importantly, God will always be conscious of what you are doing,” Duterte said in a taped speech aired Wednesday night.

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The President made the pronouncement after vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. reported to him that private pharmaceutical firms would help the government provide the needed cold-chain storage facilities for the vaccines to be bought by the Philippines.

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Before this, notable businessmen and conglomerates donated and rolled out projects aimed at supporting those affected by the Luzon lockdown.

Private firms have also recently entered into a tripartite agreement with the government and British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca for the procurement of six million doses of coronavirus vaccines — half of which will be donated by the private sector to the national government while the other three million will be used for the companies’ employees.

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