DA, iginiit na hindi gagamitin ang mga expired na bakuna vs. ASF; Nasa 10-K bakuna, inaasahang darating ngayong linggo

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00:00Agriculture Department announced that new vaccines will be used against African Swine Fever.

00:08According to the DA, the checkpoint and testing will be intensified.

00:13Clayzel Pardilla is live in the center of the news.

00:19Yes Aljo, there are 150,000 vaccines against African Swine Fever that arrived here in the Philippines last year,

00:28but it is expired, according to some groups of aggressors who used it to vaccinate against ASF.

00:40There are 150,000 vaccines against African Swine Fever that arrived here in the Philippines last year.

00:49The vaccines were imported by a Vietnamese company

00:53on the assumption that the Food and Drug Administration will approve it immediately.

00:57However, the expiration of the vaccines was reached last March.

01:00The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry advised to use the vaccines that were imported

01:05for the controlled vaccination against ASF.

01:08The expiration of the vaccines was extended until December.

01:15It was extended and it can be used.

01:20So we immediately objected to the use because the government will buy it.

01:29It should be changed and there is no assurance that it will have an effect.

01:36The Department of Agriculture will clarify now.

01:42The government will not buy expired vaccines.

01:46They will send new ones.

01:48The vaccines will be good for two years when they arrive.

01:53The DA did not charge for the expired vaccines.

01:57It can be seen that the vaccination of the private sector was stopped

02:01due to the absence of a certificate of product registration of the ASF vaccine.

02:07It is expected that 10,000 vaccines against ASF will arrive this week

02:11in the province of Batangas where the State of Calamity has already declared

02:16because of the continuous spread of ASF.

02:19Despite this, the wide State of Calamity in the country still does not need to be implemented.

02:25Agriculture Secretary Francisco T. Laurel Jr. said

02:29that he is confident that the ASF will be controlled

02:32due to the activities of the agency such as vaccination.

02:35Checkpoints and testing were stopped.

02:38Indemnification fee was increased to 12,000 pesos from 5,000 pesos only.

02:47This will definitely help to control the spread of infected animals.

02:53That is the main reason why ASF spread quickly.

02:58Many farms that have positive cases of ASF are under lockdown

03:06and not the whole country where there is an ASF outbreak.

03:10There are other sources of pork supply such as Central Zone

03:14and there is also imported supply.

03:16That is why the Agriculture Department is not worried about the price of pork.

03:22That is the latest. Back to you, Aljo.

03:25Thank you very much, Laisel Pardillo.