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+ March 01, 2021 A TOTAL of 600,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine donated by the Chinese government arrived in the Philippines on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021.
Although the Philippines is the last member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to receive the vaccine, the Sinovac shipment arrived just four days after the first batch of vaccines reached our neighbors Vietnam and Thailand.
Mind you, if Malacañang had agreed to allow clinical trials to be conducted here like Lao PDR and Indonesia did, we would have received vaccines in November and December, respectively. But it didn’t. And there’s no point in dwelling on what could have been.
Visayas, Mindanao to get Sinovac vaccines on March 3 and 5 — Galvez – Manila Bulletin mb.com.ph - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mb.com.ph Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
March 02, 2021 LESS than 24 hours after the arrival of the first batch of vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the Philippines, some government officials and medical frontliners had themselves inoculated Monday, March 1, 2021, to kick off the vaccination program and raise confidence in the vaccine.
Health workers at Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City will be the first to get vaccine jabs in Central Visayas on Thursday, March 4, Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Assistant Secretary Anthony Gerard “Jonji” Gonzalez said in an online press conference Monday.
More than 50 percent of the VSMMC workers agreed to have themselves inoculated, said Dr. Junjie Zuasola of the Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit of the Department of Health (DOH) 7.
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