Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 15) — The country has received over 10.4 million more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Several flights carrying millions of coronavirus shots arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 on Wednesday.
These include 2,840,100 Moderna doses donated by the German government through the COVAX facility, 2,249,400 AstraZeneca shots bought by the private sector, and 1,187,550 government-procured Pfizer doses that were delivered in the evening.
In the afternoon, the Dutch government’s donation of 3,055,200 doses of the Janssen vaccine arrived, followed by 856,800 Moderna doses from Germany, and 214,500 AstraZeneca doses from the United Kingdom.
This brings the total number of doses delivered on Wednesday alone to 10,403,550.
The National Task Force Against COVID-19 has yet to release the updated figures on the overall number of vaccine deliveries to the country.
But as of Dec. 12, a total of 96,519,211 shots have been administered nationwide.
From this lot, 54,705,555 were given as the first dose, 41,039,335 as the second dose, and 774,321 as booster shots.
