MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines expects to receive at least 16.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines of various brands in August, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., national vaccine manager, said on Monday in the weekly taped meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte.
Galvez said that a large bulk of the expected vaccines next month would come from Sinovac BioTech — 8.4 million doses of CoronaVac that the government bought.
Galvez said four million doses would come from the World Health Organization-led COVAX facility. He did not disclose the brand.
Two million would come from Pfizer-BioNTech.
Some 1,170,000 doses of AstraZeneca procured by the private sector will be del…
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