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Vera Files says: The Philippines' current rating is at "BBB" for Fitch's long-term credit rating scale (as of Jan. 10, 2021) and "BBB+" for S&P's (as of May 29, 2020). Both are a couple of notches below the "A" rating. The country's "Ba…
Vera Files says: The Palace has flip-flopped several times on when the president will be vaccinated and whether it would be in public. In August 2020, Duterte said he will be the "first" to be inoculated and that this would be done in p…
Vera Files says: Sinabi ng Norwegian Medicines Agency na ang mga pagkamatay ng mga matatanda matapos mabakunahan ng Pzifer vaccines ay "hindi nagpapahiwatig na mayroong kaugnayan ang pagkamatay at ang bakuna." Sinabi nito na karaniwang …
Vera Files says: The Norwegian Medicines Agency(NMA) said the deaths of the elderly patients after receiving Pfizer jabs “do not imply that there is a causal relationship between the deaths and the vaccine.” It noted that an average of …
Vera Files says: Ang pangulo ang unang nagbunyag sa publiko na ang ilang mga sundalo ay nabakunahan na. Sinabi ni PSG Commander Jesus Durante III na ipinaalam ng PSG sa pangulo ang pagbabakuna noong Oktubre 2020.
Vera Files says: 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.
Vera Files says: Ten of the 18 sitting judges of the ICC are from African, Latin American and Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific Groups of States, while eight are from Eastern European, and Western European and Others Groups of States. One of …
Vera Files says: Sampu sa 18 nakaupong hukom ng ICC ay mula sa African, Latin American at Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific Groups of States, habang ang walo ay mula sa Eastern European, at Western European and OthersGroups of States. Isa sa …
Vera Files says: President Rodrigo Duterte said in a speech at the UN General Assembly that the Philippines supports UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres's call for a global ceasefire on armed conflicts.
Vera Files says: Neither were there official records, transcripts, interviews nor media reports attributed to Robredo insinuating about Duterte's absence or non-appearance in public when Typhoon Ulysses unleashed strong winds and dumped…
Vera Files says: Based on land area, at least one city in Asia alone -- Shanghai City in China -- outsizes Davao city, which has a total land area of 2,443.61 square kilometers, according to Philippine Statistics Authority data. Shangha…
Vera Files says: Last September, Duterte said he had offered to resign as president because he could no longer stop corruption. He campaigned and won in the 2016 elections on the platform of ending corruption in government within three …
Vera Files says: Latest briefs from WHO and the the U.S. CDC say SARS-CoV-2 is still mainly transmitted through respiratory secretions or droplets that can reach the mouth, nose and eyes of someone who comes in close contact with a COVI…
Vera Files says: President Duterte has categorically admitted to having killed "several" persons in previous public addresses and media interviews.
Vera Files says: President Duterte's statement contradicted that of his top diplomat Teodoro Locsin Jr., who earlier strongly opposed raising the arbitral win in the UN. Duterte's stance in the UN speech also contradicted his own past p…
Vera Files says: In July 2016, Duterte vowed to bring peace in Mindanao before the end of his six-year term.
Vera Files says: President Duterte knows the leaders and has, in fact, attended a number of public gatherings of the Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte-National Executive Coordinating Committee, which organized the Aug. 22 assembly of the People…
Vera Files says: A vaccine is a product that contains a "killed" or "weakened" version, or parts of of a pathogen, such as a virus, that is used to train the body's immune response to an infection.
Vera Files says: President Duterte understated his salary -- for at least the fifth time on VERA Files Fact Check's count -- by half. His basic monthly salary is P388,096.
Vera Files says: Health experts do not recommend using gasoline and/or diesel as disinfectant. Both substances, considered toxic, has not been shown to kill the virus that causes COVID-19 and may be very harmful to human health.