PH Vaccine Supply: All Shipments That Arrived So Far

(Editor's Note: This article is updated as of September 24, 2021)

The Philippines currently has a vaccine inventory of 65.9 million doses, with more to come in the next weeks and months as it aims to inoculate 90 million Filipinos before the year ends.

Priority groups—which include health workers, senior citizens, and persons with comorbidities—were at the front of the line to receive the vaccine when the first shipments arrived late February. Vaccination for essential workers and indigent populations has started.

Here's a breakdown of all the jabs the country has received from six manufacturers.

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These are all the vaccine shipments the Philippines has received:

Sinovac

The first shipment of 600,000 Sinovac vaccines arrived on Feb. 28 as a donation from China. The second batch was also a donation, with the following batches procured by the government.

The city of Manila on June 24 received the first shipment of vaccines procured through a tripartite deal containing 2 million doses, with 400,000 allotted to the city of Manila.

AstraZeneca

All shipments of jabs from the British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca were receieved through vaccine-sharing facility COVAX led by the WHO.

The first shipment carried 487,200 doses and arrived on Mar. 4. The latest shipment arrived on July 9, containing more than two million doses.

After reports of blood clotting, officials suspended use of AstraZeneca vaccines for those aged 60 and below. This suspension has since been lifted.

Sputnik V

The Philippines currently has 80,000 doses of Russia-made vaccine Sputnik V, with more to come in the next weeks and months according to the Philippine Ambassador to Russia. Doses are procured from the Gamaleya Research Institute.

Pfizer

A total of 193,050 doses of Pfizer vaccines, courtesy of the global COVAX facility, arrived in the Philippines on May 10. Though Pfizer jabs were first to receive emergency use authorization in the Philippines, doses were not immediately available to the country.

A month later on June 10, the Philippines received its biggest shipment of vaccines from the COVAX facility containing more than 2.2 million doses of the Pfizer jabs.

Moderna

The Philippines received its first shipment of Moderna on June 27 containing 249,600 doses—a part of which will go to the private sector.

Some 13 million doses are expected in July through the government's procurement deals, with an additional 20 million doses procured by the private sector through tripartite deals.

The largest shipment of Moderna jabs contaning 3 million doses arrived on August 3.

Johnson & Johnson

The Philippines on July 16 received its first shipment of the single-dose Johnson&Johnson COVID-19 vaccine—a donation by the United States, through the global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX.

An initial 1,606,600 doses of the vaccine called Janssen, arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Friday afternoon. The second shipment of 1,606,600 doses is set to arrive on Saturday.

Sinopharm

The country's first batch of Sinopharm vaccines contained 100,000 doses, with all three batches being donations.