The Philippines on Sunday night received more than five million doses of Pfizer and Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines, boosting supply after the country raised its immunization target to 90% of the population.
Three million doses of procured Sinovac vaccines arrived past 6 p.m. via a commercial Philippine Airlines flight. These will be distributed in Central Luzon, Metro Manila, Calabarzon, Central Visayas, and Davao Region, said NTF Chief Implementer and vaccine czar Carlito Galvez.
China's Sinovac has so far delivered 36 million CoronaVac doses to the Philippines, 34.1 million of which were procured by the national government.
The country also received 2,202,590 doses of Pfizer jabs from the WHO-led vaccine equity alliance COVAX, part of the 2.58 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that was pledged by Washington to Manila.
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The government has raised the immunization target up to 98 million, or 90% of the 109 million Philippine population by early 2022. As of Sept. 16, over 17 million individuals have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
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