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From asserting, at least three times, that the government's agreement with Chinese firm Sinovac on the procurement of vaccines against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was already a "done deal," Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque now says it is "not yet final."

From seeing "sense" in the Department of National Defense's (DND) unilateral termination of its 1989 accord with the University of the Philippines (UP), Sen. Panfilo "Ping" Lacson now says it should "go back to the drawing board."

President Rodrigo Duterte insinuated that the recent deaths of elderly persons in Norway were caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine of Pfizer-BioNTech. This needs context.

No official reports support the claim that such action has been taken by the government.

Health experts said Skelton’s case is “likely a coincidence and not caused by the vaccine itself.”

A cursory Google search revealed Duterte made no such order this month.

While the DZRH radio commentator did mention Robredo in his livestream, he made no such derogatory remark against her.

Although there has been no conclusive data yet on the safety and efficacy of some candidate vaccines against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), top government officials have already vouched for their effectiveness.

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The original photo showed the demonstrators raising blank plywood signboards.

In at least three separate briefings, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque misstated the interim clinical trial results of Indonesia on CoronaVac, a vaccine against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) developed by Chinese firm Sinovac BioTech.

In promoting the use of copper-infused face masks amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, former beauty queen Miriam Quiambao-Roberto shared in her Facebook status on Jan. 6 a “forwarded message” that cited faulty reasoning on the ability of copper to “disinfect virus and bacteria.”

The case of Dacera, who was found dead in a Makati City hotel following a New Year’s Eve celebration, remains unresolved.

No such announcements have been made by the president nor the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

The presidential spokesperson on his official FB page also decried the quote card as "fake."

A sea vessel, two excavators, and other tools used for the rehabilitation of the bay were also edited out of the original image and digitally covered with sand.

Despite denials from his family, the post is still drawing interest among netizens who continue to share the hoax.

Its publisher said the post is “a joke” and a “satire.”