Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez said that the first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines may arrive in May while the other American vaccine manufacturer Moderna will start to arrive in June.
Romualdez said that Moderna may deliver “close to 200,000” shots of its vaccine to the Philippines on June 15.
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“It will start increasing in succeeding months… They will complete the 20 million before the end of the year,” he said in a briefing.
Pfizer on the other hand will deliver its delayed 117,000 doses next month.
“Those are the 2 leading vaccines coming from the United STates that should be coming into the Philippines… perhaps the end of May for Pfizer, and June for Moderna and the rest,” he said.
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“Alam ko nahihirapan tayo ngayon d’yan, pero I’m very confident na by the end of this year, a large majority of our people will be able to get the vaccines,” he added.
The country aims to vaccinate up to 70 million people by the end of this year. So far, the government has received over 3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. (TDT)
