After delays, Philippines finally receives first Pfizer doses

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The arrival of the shipment comes days after 2 million AstraZeneca doses from COVAX arrived in the Philippines on May 8. The delivery of Pfizer’s vaccine also makes for the 4th vaccine to become available in the country’s vaccination drive. READ:

Following months of uncertainty, Filipinos will soon receive the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine after an initial delivery of the shot finally arrived in the Philippines on Monday night, May 10.

Key officials from the Duterte government, including Science and Technology Secretary Fortunato Dela Peña, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, Deputy Chief Implementer Vince Dizon, and Health Undersecretary Leopoldo Vega welcomed the shipment, along with United States Embassy Charge d’Affaires John Law, UN Resident Coordinator Gustavo Gonzalez, and WHO Philippines Representative Dr Rabindra Abeyasinghe, among others.

Filipinos had earlier been made to expect the arrival of an 117,000 doses of Pfizer's shot by mid-February, with health workers among the first lined up to get the jab. But the lack of an indemnification law, as well as disagreements over the scope of indemnity for Pfizer, hadUp until the delivery of Pfizer’s vaccine, widely used in the Philippine government’s vaccination campaign were those developed by Sinovac, AstraZeneca, and the Gamaleya Research Institute of Russia.

Galvez said some 4 million to 7 million doses of vaccine from COVAX were expected to arrive in May, while the Philippines was set to receive 2.3 million doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine"not later than June.”

 

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