After a slight delay, the Philippines will finally receive its first batch of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines from the COVAX Facility on Monday, March 1, a day after the country gets 600,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines on Sunday.Presidential spokesman Harry Roque confirmed that the Philippines is set to receive 525,600 doses of the British-Swedish vaccines at around 12:50 p.m. on Monday.
“This forms part of the 44 million doses of COVAX to inoculate 20 percent of our population,” he added. The Philippines is set to receive a total of 5,500,800 to 9,290,400 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the COVAX Facility within the first half of the year. It was supposed to take place in the middle of February but got delayed due to the absence of an indemnity agreement.
“We are grateful to everyone — from our medical frontliners to our fellow Filipinos and foreign partners — who stand by us in this challenging time,” he said.In particular, Roque extended the country’s gratitude to the World Health Organization , the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization , the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations , and the United Nations Children’s Fund for the vaccines.
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They delayed the arrival of this vaccine for the arrival of sinovacsak!
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