Gordon Urges to Deport Chinese Nationals Shot with Unauthorized COVID-19 Vaccine
Senator Richard Gordon said that Chinese nationals who were vaccinated with the coronavirus vaccine unauthorized by FDA with be deported.
The 100,000 Chinese nationals, mostly workers at Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO), which supposed to be vaccinated by the COVID-19 vaccine that is not approved and unauthorized by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should be deported for violating the law, said Gordon based on the report of Inquirer.
“There’s a law. They’re foreigners, they come in here, they should [be vaccinated] within what the law requires and if they don’t do that, they’re in violation and they can be deported. And if there’s success, [in the vaccine], I don’t care, they violated the law. As simple as that,” Gordon said.
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Recently, Filipino-Chinese civic leader Teresita Ang-See revealed that nearly 100,000 Chinese nationals in the Philippines were inoculated in December despite FDA not approved the use in the country.
As a result, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said he could not confirm the veracity of this statement that foreigners used an unauthorized drug, but said that if true, then it was a “good” thing because this means there are fewer possibilities to carry the virus.
Meanwhile, Roque warns that individuals caught selling or distributing unauthorized COVID-19 vaccines will face imprisonment. Punishments will be served immediately if they will be caught illegally distributing unlicensed and not approved vaccines for the virus.
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