MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is expected to receive at least 13 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines of various brands in this second quarter of 2021, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., the country’s vaccine manager, said.
In a pre-recorded meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte, Galvez reported that more than 2 million doses of vaccines would arrive this April.
On April 22, Galvez said 500,000 doses of Sinovac BioTech’s CoronaVac and 20,000 doses of Gamaleya Institute’s Sputnik V would be delivered.
“This is what we call a mini rollout because this has a different component. So we will conduct testing first with the 20,000,” Galvez explained in Filipino.
Another 500,000 …
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