Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, August 24) — The country expects to receive in the last days of August over 3 million COVID-19 vaccine doses it had purchased from suppliers, Malacanang said Tuesday.
In his regular briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said 362,700 government-procured Pfizer doses are slated to arrive in the country this Wednesday.
Some 3 million doses of Sinovac’s CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine purchased by the government will be delivered in the fourth week of August, the spokesman added.
Latest data from the National Task Force Against COVID-19 shows over 47.26 million vaccine doses have arrived in the country so far.
The country has administered over 30.69 million shot so far, the task force said. Over 13.19 million Filipinos received both vaccine doses, while 17.49 million got their first shot, it added.
