21 Dec 2020 - 10:26
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MANILA: The Philippines expects to receive 30 million doses of Novavax Inc s COVID-19 vaccine by July next year, its foreign minister said on Monday, boosting the country s effort to secure supplies to inoculate more than 100 million people.
Despite consultations with numerous vaccine makers, the Philippines has so far signed only one supply deal, with the help of its private sector, to acquire 2.6 million shots of a vaccine developed by AstraZeneca.
21 Dec 2020 / 15:10 H.
MANILA, Dec 21 (Reuters) - The Philippines expects to receive 30 million doses of Novavax Inc s COVID-19 vaccine by July next year, its foreign minister said on Monday, boosting the country s effort to secure supplies to inoculate more than 100 million people.
Despite consultations with numerous vaccine makers, the Philippines has so far signed only one supply deal, with the help of its private sector, to acquire 2.6 million shots of a vaccine developed by AstraZeneca.
It plans to buy 25 million doses of a vaccine from China s Sinovac Biotech for delivery by March and aims to secure between four and 25 million doses of vaccines from Moderna and Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc.
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The global coronavirus pandemic has infected at least 75 million people around the world and claimed more than 1.6 million lives. Here are updates for December 18: Crowds of shoppers walk under the Christmas lights in Regent Street, in London, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020 (AP)
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