Japan completes 2nd tranche of vaccine donations to PH; more Pfizer doses arrive
Japan completed its donation of 1.96 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to the Philippines on Saturday.
More US-donated Pfizer doses arrive in PH
The Philippines on Monday night received 561,600 Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine doses, which were donations of the US government.
Davao City doesn’t want China-made vaccines, prefers Western-made jabs
Davao City is asking the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) to consider purchasing more Western vaccine brands due to the low acceptability of Davao residents of Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines from China.
Non-NCR-Plus-8 provinces to receive 15k-20k vaccine doses this month
Galvez said the country would receive 1.5 million Sinovac vaccines this month, which then would be distributed to the provinces.
PH expects 4M vaccine doses in June — WHO
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.