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No cop has been inoculated with COVID-19 vaccine: PNP

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/generic/police-force-012017.jpg"/><figcaption><em>ABS-CBN News/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - No police officer has received a coronavirus vaccine yet, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Tuesday.</p><p>&quot;Wala pa po (Not yet),&quot; PNP spokesperson Police Brig. Gen. Ildebrandi Usana told Teleradyo&#x27;s &quot;Sakto&quot;.</p><p>This, after members of President Rodrigo Duterte&#x27;s security detail had been inoculated with Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine to the dismay of health workers.</p><p>The move also blindsided drug regulators and contradicted an earlier government decision to prioritize medical frontliners for vaccination.</p><p>Should inoculation start, Usana said they would prioritize police officers serving on the frontline in the fight against the virus.</p><p>To date, the police force has tallied nearly 9,000 COVID-19 infections, of which 27 have died. Some 8,580 police personnel have recovered while 340 others remain sick with the virus.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="" Keeping="" Duterte="" safe="" from="" Presidential="" guards="" inoculated="" with="" COVID-19="">&#x27;Keeping Duterte safe from threats:&#x27; Presidential guards inoculated with COVID-19 vaccine</a></li></ul><p>On Monday, government officials revealed that members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) had gotten COVID-19 shots developed by Chinese drug maker Sinopharm.</p><p>&quot;Per our inquiry, members of the Presidential Security Group were the first ones from the AFP who were vaccinated owing to the nature of their mission and function,&quot; AFP spokesman Maj. Gen. Edgard Arevalo had said.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/28/20/fda-on-sinopharm-vaccine-used-by-presidential-security-group-rodrigo-duterte">Unauthorized use of COVID-19 vaccine illegal, FDA says after Duterte&#x27;s PSG inoculated</a></li></ul><p>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had said unauthorized use of COVID-19 vaccine is illegal.</p><p>“As of date, the FDA has not issued any emergency use authorization (EUA) to any vaccine for COVID-19. Without the proper authorization, there is no guarantee on the safety, quality and efficacy of said vaccine as the same has not undergone the required technical evaluation by the FDA,&quot; FDA director general Eric Domingo said in a statement.</p><p>The agency also maintained that &quot;manufacture, importation, exportation, sale, offering for sale, distribution, transfer, non-consumer use, promotion, advertisement, or sponsorship of any unauthorized vaccine&quot; remain prohibited.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w-WQLzgixyw?enablejsapi=1"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>No police officer has received a coronavirus vaccine yet, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Tuesday.</p><p> </p>

No police officer has received a coronavirus vaccine yet, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Tuesday.