The Covax facility is expected to provide the Philippines with an estimated four million Covid-19 vaccine doses in June, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Monday.
WHO representative to the Philippines Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe said about two million Pfizer-BioNTech doses and two million AstraZeneca doses were expected to arrive next month.
“We are expecting up to two million of Pfizer doses to come in before the end of June, maybe as early as within the next ten days,” he said in a Palace briefing.
But Abeyasinghe said he was unsure whether all two million Pfizer doses would come in a single shipment.
Moderna shipment expected in June, too
Additionally, the country is expecting 300,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine.
In a CNN Philippines interview on Monday, Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez said the shipment was expected to arrive by June 21.
“June 21 is the target date of delivery for the first batch of Moderna vaccines. It will be 300,000 doses as a start…We will be getting more by July, August and September,” he said.
In January, Romualdez said the country was assured of 20 million Moderna doses, which were procured by the national government and the private sector. John Ezekiel J. Hirro