MANILA, Philippines — The health department on Friday said it has laid out a strategy to ensure that the initial batch of COVID-19 vaccines in the country from British-Swede firm AstraZeneca would be administered before its expiration by the end of May.
“Ang dumating po sa atin, ‘yan po, ‘yung expiry sa end ng May, pero nakaayos na po ang strategies natin,” Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said.
(The vaccines that were delivered to us are expiring by the end of May but we already have strategies to use them up before that.)
Vergeire explained that vaccine manufacturers set the expiry date of vaccines to six months after production, s…
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