‘Not naming vaccine brand is right’

The World Health Organisation (WHO) backed the Duterte administration’s policy not to announce vaccine brands to be used in inoculation sites to avoid congestion arising from people’s preference for a certain brand.

President Rodrigo Duterte ordered a stop to the announcement of brands after scores of people flocked to a shopping mall and failed to observe proper distancing as a protocol during the pandemic in an attempt to get the Pfizer vaccine.