Palace to Sara Duterte: Supply of Western vax brands low

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The current global supply of Western vaccines is not enough and even the Philippines’ orders are being delivered in small quantities, Malacañang said after Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, suggested that the government buy more of these.

“On behalf of the IATF, who wouldn’t want a Western brand? The problem is, we’re not getting the supply. We ordered 40 million , but as you can see, they come in trickles, and what’s arriving are COVAX-supplied, which are donated,” Roque said in a press briefing.

“So it’s very important to tell our countrymen that the current vaccines in the Philippines… [are] still incredibly powerful at protecting Filipinos against the Delta variant,” Austriaco said. More than half or 36 million are CoronaVac made by China-based Sinovac Biotech, while 15 percent or 9.6 million doses are Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines and 14 percent or 9.2 million doses Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.

Galvez said the Philippines would get 20 million doses before the end of September or by the first week of October. Among the eligible population, or Filipinos 18 years old and above, the percentage of those who were fully vaccinated was 26.6 percent.Chair Benhur Abalos of the Metroplitan Manila Development Authority on Monday said he was hopeful that the eligible population in the National Capital Region would be completely vaccinated by the end of the year.

 

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