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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 24) Talks between the Philippines and the United States are ongoing to help the country distribute and eventually develop vaccines here amid the health crisis, an envoy to the US bared on Monday.
Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Babe Romualdez told CNN Philippines that both countries are in the early stages of negotiation for a co-manufacturing agreement with some Western vaccine brands. As far back as October last year, I have already been encouraging Moderna specifically. We’ve been talking since July of last year to look at the Philippines as a place where they could at least start the distribution point, then after that to start developing vaccines here, said Romualdez.
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The government is hoping to secure up to 40 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine made by American firm Pfizer, Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel ‘Babe’ Romualdez said Thursday.
Biden s help sought to speed up delivery of Moderna vaccines to PH
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 15) Several groups led by US-based Filipinos urged US President Joe Biden to help speed up the delivery of the initial doses of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine purchased by the Philippines, in light of the fresh surge in coronavirus cases in the country.
They sent a letter to Biden asking him to advocate for the immediate release of five million Moderna [vaccine doses] by May and not to wait until July 2021. The situation is dire, and the Philippines needs immediate help, the organizations added.
The country is expecting some 2.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, with the shipment seen to arrive by end of May or June, according to Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez.