The COVID-19 task force has approved the allotment of funds for the country’s participation in the World Health Organization Solidarity Trial – which aims to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus disease.
“The allocation of the necessary funding for the participation in the said trials [will] be proposed in the 2021 budget of the DOST (Department of Science and Technology),” the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases wrote in its Resolution No. 47, approved on Friday and released on Saturday.
It adopted a recommendation by the sub-technical working group headed by the DOST. It also agreed to create a separate panel within the working group to provide technical support for local phramaceutical companies.
Worldwide, COVID-19 has infected more than 8.6 million people and killed over 460,000. The Philippine has confirmed more than 28,000 infections, with 1,130 deaths and 7,378 recoveries.
