Department of Health(DOH)

Hi David Michael San Juan Please be informed that your request has been endorsed to the Disease Prevention and Control Bureau for action. Kindly await for their response, thank you

January 28, 2021 Dear David Michael San Juan, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Jan 21, 2021 08:28:27 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request You asked for Price (per dose and per brand) of COVID-19 Vaccine to be Procured by the National Government. Response to Request We would like to inform you that the Food and Drug Administration Philippines has granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID 19 Vaccine as per Press Statement released last 14 January 2021. As stipulated "The granting of the EUA is not a marketing authorization of Certificate of Product Registration, hence this cannot be used to market the vaccine commercially." Hence, the determining of available vaccines and cost are still ongoing. We are assured by the FDA that will provide the public with the correct information and authorized product transparency. For more information relative to the concern, may we refer you to FDA website: https://www.fda.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FDA-Press-Statement-EUA-Pfizer-January-14-2021.pdf or https://www.fda.gov.ph/covid-19-fda-updates/ Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to Undersecretary Lilibeth C. David, Chair of Data Governance Oversight Committee/ DOH Central Appeals and Review Committee, at [email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, FOI Receiving Officer