MANILA, Philippines — Over one million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from British-Swede drug firm AstraZeneca arrived in the Philippines on Thursday night.
In a Twitter post, Presidential Assistant on Foreign Affairs Robert Eric Borje said the flight carrying the donated doses has arrived in Manila.
ATM: ANA flight 819 bearing more than 1M doses of COVID 19 vaccines arrive in Manila. A donation of the Japan Govt, PRRD will welcome the turnover. #PartnershipsThatWork @AmbJPNinPH @JPN_PMO pic.twitter.com/6m47eK7U1N
— PAFA (@ph_opafa) July 8, 2021
This is one of two batches of AstraZeneca COVID-10 vaccine expected to be delivered this week, according to Malacaang.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) to the Department of Health to accept the AstraZeneca vaccines from Japan.
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