PH buys 20M more Pfizer vaccines

The national government bought an additional 20 million doses of Pfizer coronavirus disease vaccine from the United States, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. revealed on Sunday, Nov. 28.Galvez said the National Task Force Against COVID-19, which he heads as its chief implementer, already signed the purchase order for the new supply deal with Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine manufacturer.

The new vaccine procurement will add to the 40 million vaccines that were bought by the government from Pfizer for 2021, and is set to be delivered starting in 2022. Pfizer is among the brands granted with a revised emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration for the booster vaccination of the three priority sectors.

So far, the country has already received 141,606,240 doses of vaccines since it started accepting the supplies in February.

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