193,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to arrive on Monday — Duque

FILE PHOTO: A vial and syringe are seen in front of a displayed Pfizer logo in this illustration taken January 11, 2021. REUTERS

MANILA, Philippines — Some 193,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from U.S. drugmaker Pfizer are set to arrive in the country on Monday, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Saturday.

“On Monday, that’s May 10, we are expecting the Pfizer delivery of around 193,000 [doses], and then we have also COVAX Pfizer 1.1 million doses and then additional 500,000 Sinovac and about 2 million Sputnik V by Gamaleya,” he said in a press briefing held after the delivery of over 2 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX Facility.

At present, the country has already received over 7.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, composed of 2.5 million AstraZeneca doses, 5 million CoronaVac doses from China’s Sinovac Biotech, and 15,000 Sputnik V doses from Russia’s Gamaleya Institute.

As of May 4, over 2 million doses have already been given to priority groups for vaccination, including 1.7 million doses given as the first dose and 320,586 as second shots.

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