SunStar Cebu City chooses AstraZeneca, Covovax FIRST BATCH. A vaccinator assigned at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center shows one of the vials containing the Sinovac vaccine just before she starts vaccinating health care workers on Thursday, March 4, 2021. / Amper Campaña + March 06, 2021 OF ITS P400 million allocated budget for the acquisition of Covid-19 vaccines, the Cebu City Government will spend P200 million to acquire AstraZeneca and Covovax vaccines. This after the City Council gave Mayor Edgardo Labella the authority to negotiate with the two Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers. Labella told reporters that after the City Council gave him the power to negotiate the purchase, he immediately sent letters of intent (LOI) to the two companies.