The Philippines is scheduled to conduct Phase 3 of clinical trials of Sputnik V vaccine from October 2020 to March 2021.
The human testing phase will be funded by the Russian government and will be done simultaneously in Manila and Moscow.
“Maybe there will be some exchange of questions with our vaccine expert panel and those in Russia, and maybe in the next few days , we’ll have an idea whether there is a chance or a high likelihood that the protocols will be implemented here in the Philippines,” Montoya said. “If best case scenario, everything goes well, they finish their clinical trials on time, maybe in the first quarter of next year, they analyze the data, they submit all their data to the FDA, that will require one month or so, maybe at the earliest, best case scenario, sometime early part of the 3rd quarter next year,” he said in an interview over ABS CBN News Channel.second quarter of 2021.
“A more important assurance is that we have negotiations with them as far as procurement is concerned, maybe a special arrangement of their priorities, or special prices,” he said.
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