PH expecting 1.1 million more Pfizer vaccines at end of May

(FILE) Presidential Adviser on Peace Process and Chief Implementer National Task Force against Coronavirus Disease-2019 (NTF COVID-19) Carlito Galvez Jr. gives an update to President Rodrigo Roa Duterte during a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members at the Malacañang Golf (Malago) Clubhouse in Malacañang Park, Manila on January 13, 2021. ROBINSON NIÑAL/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is expecting the arrival of 1.1 million more doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine by the end of May, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said Monday.

“Bago mag-end po ang May, meron pa pong 1.1 million na Pfizer na darating,” Galvez said in a pre-recorded meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte.

(Before the end of May, we will have 1.1 million doses of Pfizer coming.)

Galvez said another 500,000 doses of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac are also expected to be delivered this month.

Further, Galvez said negotiations are still ongoing for two million more doses of Russian-made Sputnik V.

In June, Galvez said the following vaccine deliveries are to be expected:

• 1.1 million doses of Pfizer BioNTech’s vaccine
• 4.5 million doses of CoronaVac
• 250,000 doses of Moderna’s vaccine
• 1.3 million doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine
• 2 million doses of Sputnik V

So far, the Philippines has received more than 7.5 million doses of jabs, the most recent of which is two million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from the World Health Organization-led COVAX facility.

The country is also expecting 193,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine this Monday night.

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