“I don't know if members of the Presidential Security Group were, in fact, administered vaccines against COVID-19.”
What Vera Files found
It was the president who first disclosed to the public that some soldiers had already been vaccinated. PSG Commander Jesus Durante III had said the PSG informed the president of the inoculation as early as October 2020.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 4 January 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 14 January 2021, 10 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/presidential-speech/talk-to-the-people-of-president-rodrigo-roa-duter…
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