DAVAO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Davao City, Mar. 3 A small crowd gathered at this airport s terminal building, as a chartered Philippines Airlines 737 jet landed and taxied along the runway.
As the plane’s cargo hold opened, the crowd burst into cheers, as large metal containers were offloaded from the aircraft.
Inside the containers were 12,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines, part of the shipment of 600,000 anti-COVID shots donated by the Chinese government to the Philippines.
Dr. Ricardo Audan, chief of the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC), broke into a smile, as he looked on while the vaccines were swiftly transferred to refrigerated vans.
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