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PH Vaccine Supply: All Shipments That Arrived So Far

With more jabs to arrive in the coming months.
by Clara Rosales
May 10, 2021
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(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.

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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.

Date of arrival Brand Number of doses Notes
February 28, 2021 Sinovac 600,000 Donation
March 24, 2021 Sinovac 400,000 Donation
March 29, 2021 Sinovac 1,000,000 Procured
April 11, 2021 Sinovac 500,000 Procured
April 22, 2021 Sinovac 500,000 Procured
April 29, 2021 Sinovac 500,000 Procured
May 7, 2021 Sinovac 1,500,000 Procured
May 20, 2021 Sinovac 500,000 Procured
June 6, 2021 Sinovac 1,000,000 Procured
June 10, 2021 Sinovac 1,000,000 Procured
June 17, 2021 Sinovac 1,500,000 Procured
June 24, 2021 Sinovac 2,000,000 Procured
- 400k for Tripartite deal, Manila City
June 28, 2021 Sinovac 1,000,000 Procured
July 22, 2021 Sinovac 1,500,000 Procured
July 23, 2021 Sinovac 1,000,000 Procured
July 28, 2021 Sinovac 1,500,000 Procured
July 30, 2021 Sinovac 1,000,000 Procured
August 5, 2021 Sinovac 1,000,000 Procured
August 12, 2021 Sinovac 2,000,000 Procured
August 19, 2021 Sinovac 3,000,000 Procured
August 21, 2021 Sinovac 1,000,000 Procured
August 30, 2021 Sinovac 3,000,000 Procured
September 10, 2021 Sinovac 1,500,000 Procured
September 13, 2021 Sinovac 2,000,000 Procured

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.

Date of arrival Brand Number of doses Notes
March 4, 2021 AstraZeneca 487,200 from COVAX facility
March 7, 2021 AstraZeneca 38,400 from COVAX facility
May 8, 2021 AstraZeneca 2,030,400 from COVAX facility
July 8, 2021 AstraZeneca 1,124,100 from Japan
July 9, 2021 AstraZeneca 2,028,000 from COVAX facility
July 16, 2021 AstraZeneca 1,150,000 from COVAX facility
August 2, 2021 AstraZeneca 415,040 Donated
August 13, 2021 AstraZeneca 575,800 Procured
August 20, 2021 AstraZeneca 582,500 Procured
September 10, 2021 AstraZeneca 502,000 Procured
September 17, 2021 AstraZeneca 661,200 Procured

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.

Date of arrival Brand Number of doses Notes
May 1, 2021 Sputnik V 15,000 Procured
May 12, 2021 Sputnik V 15,000 Procured
May 31, 2021 Sputnik V 50,000 Procured
July 10 - 11, 2021 Sputnik V 170,000 Procured
August 13, 2021 Sputnik V 15,000 Procured
August 31, 2021 Sputnik V 15,000 Procured
September 18, 2021 Sputnik V 190,000 Procured

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.

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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.

Date of arrival Brand Number of doses Notes
May 10, 2021 Pfizer-BioNTech 193,050 from COVAX facility
June 10, 2021 Pfizer-BioNTech 2,279,160 from COVAX facility
July 21, 2021 Pfizer-BioNTech 562,770 Procured
July 26, 2021 Pfizer-BioNTech 375,570 Procured
August 11, 2021 Pfizer-BioNTech 813,150 Procured
August 18, 2021 Pfizer-BioNTech 365,040 Procured
August 25, 2021 Pfizer-BioNTech 362,700 Procured
September 1, 2021 Pfizer-BioNTech 703,170 Procured
September 2, 2021 Pfizer-BioNTech 188,370 from COVAX facility
September 15, 2021 Pfizer-BioNTech 753,480 Procured

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.

Date of arrival Brand Number of doses Notes
June 27, 2021 Moderna 249,600 Procured
- tripartite deal
July 15, 2021 Moderna 250,800 Procured
August 3, 2021 Moderna 3,000,060 Donated
August 8, 2021 Moderna 326,400 Procured
August 15, 2021 Moderna 469,200 Procured
September 18, 2021 Moderna 961,000 Procured

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.

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Date of arrival Brand Number of doses Notes
July 16, 2021 Johnson & Johnson 1,606,600 Donated
July 17, 2021 Johnson & Johnson 1,634,250 Donated

Sinopharm

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

Date of arrival Brand Number of doses Notes
August 11, 2021 Johnson & Johnson 1,606,600 Donated
August 20, 2021 Johnson & Johnson 1,634,250 Donated
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