2.2-M doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines arrive in PH

This is the second shipment of Pfizer vaccines to the Philippines. The first was on May 10 with 193,050 doses.Earlier on Thursday, the Philippines also received one million doses of Chinese drug firm Sinovac Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine, CoronaVac.

This is by far the biggest shipment of COVID-19 vaccines the Philippines has received in a single day, amounting to 3.2 million doses.In a joint statement on Thursday, the Department of Health and the World Health Organization said the vaccines would be given to priority groups A1 to A3 — medical frontliners, senior citizens, and persons with comorbidities.

“We will use these vaccines among our A1 to A3 priority groups. If we don’t vaccinate them, we will encounter the same packed emergency rooms, unavailable intensive care units, and even hospital beds during the next surge,” Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said. “Given the surge in cases in some regions, it is urgent to achieve high vaccination coverage in these A1 to A3 groups to protect those at risk of severe disease and death. WHO urges the National Task Force and the local government units to establish mechanisms to increase accessibility to vaccination of the healthcare workers and elderly across the country,” WHO Country Representative Rabindra Abeyasinghe said.

DYGalvezINQ Thanks, you corrected your 2 reports regarding the number of Pfizer vaccines received today. First said, it’s nearly 2 million & later with “correction”- the number became 1.9m. The other networks including UNICEF said it’s 2.2m w/c was the real number.

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