The global vaccine pool COVAX will deliver 4.58 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot by May, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
“We have already a commitment from COVAX for the delivery of up to 4.58 million AstraZeneca vaccines through May of this year,” Rabindra Abeyasinghe, the WHO representative to the Philippines told a news briefing.
“And in addition to that, we will also be receiving 117,000 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines,” Abeyasinghe added.
He also said the number of additional doses of the Pfizer vaccine to be allocated by COVAX for the Philippines would be known by the end of March.
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Earlier, Abeyasinghe said the Philippines w…
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