PH gets over 2M AstraZeneca, 132,000 Sputnik vaccine doses
Updated Jul 9, 2021 11:30:00 PM
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, July 9) The country on Friday received over two million more AstraZeneca vaccines and 132,000 doses of Russia s Sputnik V vaccine.
The 2,028,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses from the World Health Organization-led COVAX Facility arrived past 4 p.m. at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, and was welcomed by officials, including Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez and WHO country representative Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe.
The Philippines has so far received a total of 5,708,100 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the British-Swedish manufacturer.
Of this number, 4,584,000 were from COVAX a global initiative that aims to give participating countries equitable access to coronavirus vaccines.
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