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PARIS (AFP) – With a strategic alliance, 24-hour production and a bit of luck, Pfizer and BioNTech were able to roll out their COVID vaccine at a brisk pace and relatively free of controversy.

Alice Dixson is now part of the growing list of celebrities who took the COVID-19 vaccine.

President Duterte said that while he respects the preference of doctors to western brands, he claimed they were "discriminating" for refusing to be vaccinated with the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine that came from China.

It's a Facebook frame with a Pfizer logo on the lower left and an injection on the right.

The logistics sector has urged the government to tap the private sector storage and logistics expertise because they have enough capacity to handle the different temperature requirements of COVID-19 vaccines if only government will give the business to industry players and not do it on their own.

To find out whether experimental Covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective, researchers design clinical trials involving thousands of volunteers, divided into groups that receive either the drug under investigation or a placebo.

An AFP correspondent took part in a vaccine trial organized by US biotech firm. Here, she recounts her experience.

The local stock market surged past the 7,000 level as investors celebrated positive reports on breakthrough in COVID-19 vaccines.