Vaccine czar Sec, Carlito Galvez Jr. and Health Secretary Francisco Duque III receive the latest batch of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine which arrived at the Ninoy Aquino Internationa; Airport on Friday. (Photo courtesy of National Task Force against COVID-19)
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines received on Friday an additional 1.5 million doses of Sinovac’s CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine procured by the government.
The vaccines were delivered via a Cebu Pacific flight at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
The Philippines has so far received a total of five million doses of CoronaVac, including one million doses donated by the Chinese government.
(Photo courtesy of National Task Force against COVID-19)
This May, the country also expects to receive more vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca from the World Health Organization-led COVAX facility.