MANILA, Philippines — The first shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech-developed COVID-19 vaccines, totaling 193,050 doses, arrived in the Philippines on Monday.
The doses were donated by the World Health Organization’s COVAX facility and landed at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport around 9 p.m.
👀The Philippines welcomes the arrival of over 193,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine from the #COVAX Facility.
To date, PH🇵🇠has received more than 2.74M doses from COVAX, the intl partnership which ensures equitable distribution of #COVID19 vaccines around the world. pic.twitter.com/QEwDt00Rdy
— World Health Organization Philippines (@WHOPhilippines) May 10, 2021
They were supposed to arrive in mid-February, but the hitch in the indemnity agreement caused delays.
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