MANILA, Philippines — Around 1.3 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines were delivered to the Philippines on Tuesday evening, the National Task Force Against COVID-19 said.
The 1,358,600 doses were procured by the private sector. It was shipped via Korean Air flight KE623, which touched down at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport around 9 p.m.
The country likewise received the following vaccine donations on the same day:
-1,623,960 Pfizer vaccine doses from the United States
-1,697,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses from France
-500,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses from Argentina
READ: 3.3 million more donated COVID-19 vaccine doses arrive from US, France
With these deliveries, the country got a total of 192,344,945 various COVID-19 vaccines since arrivals started in February.
To date, the country has fully immunized 44.2 million individuals.
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