The Philippine goverment has distributed and deployed some 240,700 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines nationwide for workers and medical frontliners aged 60 and above.
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles made the announcement after the second batch of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines—38,400 doses of AstraZeneca on Sunday night.
“We have deployed these 240,700 AstraZeneca doses all over the country for health workers and medical frontline. Malaking tulong ito sa ating rollout,” Nograles said.
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World Health Organization (WHO) country representative Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe said that the Philippines will get an additional 4.5 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility.
“Inaasahan natin na sunod sunod na itong delivery from COVAX facility as they promised,” Nograles added.
British Ambassador to the Philippines Daniel Pruce said that the Philippines will be receiving 23 million of AstraZeneca vaccines from the UK.
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“Within the COVAX Facility there will be further deliveries planned, I think 4 to 5 million in total of the AstraZeneca vaccine and other vaccines as well,” Pruce told GMA News.
Pruce said that more will be coming since the country has signed a number of tripartite agreements.
“I think you’ll see a steady stream of consignment arriving throughout the rest of the year, and in total, I think by the end of the year we’ll have something of the order of 22 to 23 million shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the Philippines which I think is a fantastic achievement,” he said. (TDT)
