Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, August 18)— The country received a new shipment of more than 300,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
A total of 365,040 government-procured shots arrived Wednesday evening — some of which will be delivered to Cebu and Davao.
The fresh batch of the US-developed doses was welcomed by pandemic task force officials, including Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez.
A total of 27,806,881 doses have so far been administered in the country as of August 15, according to government data.
“Of the above-mentioned doses, a total of 18,697,647 individuals have already been vaccinated. 6,132,630 are partially vaccinated, while 12,565,017 have already gotten the complete protection of the COVID-19 vaccines,” the task force said in a statement.
