DA, nilinaw na hindi bibili ng expired na bakuna kontra ASF

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00:00The Department of Agriculture wants to clarify on the use of vaccines against African Swine Fever.

00:07The details of the report of Clayzel Pardilla.

00:11Clayzel?

00:12Yes, the Department of Agriculture clarified that the agency will not buy expired vaccines against African Swine Fever.

00:21According to Agriculture Assec Arnel de Mesa,

00:24new vaccines will be sent to the Philippines that will last for two years.

00:31This is in line with the concerns of the industry of agriculture

00:35to use expired vaccines against African Swine Fever.

00:41150,000 vaccines against African Swine Fever arrived in the Philippines last year.

00:47The vaccines were not sent by a Japanese company because it was expected to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

00:57However, the expiration was reached on March 2 and the expiration of the so-called vaccines was changed and extended until December.

01:10The DA clarified that the agency did not spend any money on the expired vaccines.

01:17It is noted that some private sectors stopped vaccinating because of the absence of a certificate of product registration of the ASF vaccine.

01:27Meanwhile, 10,000 vaccines against ASF were expected to arrive this week in the province of Batangas,

01:34but the State of Calamity has already declared that ASF will continue to spread.

01:39Despite this, the State of Calamity does not need to carry out a wide-ranging state of calamity in the country.

01:46According to Agriculture Secretary Francisco T. Lowell Jr.,

01:50he is confident that the ASF will be controlled because of the actions of the agency,

01:55just like the upcoming vaccination.

01:59Checkpoints and testing have been extended and indemnification fee has been increased from 12,000 pesos to 5,000 pesos.

02:09Agriculture Secretary Arnel Demesa believes that this will help to target their ASF-infected pets so that the ASF will not spread.

02:23That is the latest from Cousin Satine. Back to you, Nina.

02:29Thank you very much, Clayzel Bardilla.