Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, August 21) — The country on Saturday received one million more doses of Sinovac vaccine purchased by the government and 260,800 Sinopharm vials donated by China.
“The Philippine Airlines aircraft carrying the vaccines landed at around 6:40 AM at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2,” the National Task Force Against COVID-19 said in a statement.
A total of 26.5 million Sinovac doses, most of which or 24.6 million were procured, were delivered to the country this year, the task force said.
Meanwhile, the new batch of Sinopharm doses is in addition to the 739,200 delivered on Friday.
The country so far received 48,522,890 COVID-19 vaccines doses from different manufacturers, according to the task force.
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