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(Eagle News) — The United States donated an additional 2.7 million Pfizer vaccine doses to the country which were delivered on Sunday, January 9. The additional 2,703,870 Pfizer doses were donated by the US government through the COVAX facility. As of Monday, January 10, 2022, over 22.7 million Pfizer doses have been delivered to the country through the facilitation of the US government, while 40 million were procured by the Philippine government bringing to […]
The world’s largest vaccine maker Serum Institute of India on Friday resumed exports of Covid-19 shots, it said, in a boost for poorer countries that have struggled to secure supplies. The shipment to Tajikistan under the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative agreement was the company’s first in seven months. “This will go a long way in restoring vaccine supply equality in the world,” tweeted billionaire chief executive Adar Poonawalla. “It’s a huge moment to begin exports again, […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The Covax scheme aimed at equitable global access to Covid-19 vaccines has now delivered more than 500 million doses around the world, figures showed Wednesday. Covax was established to ensure poorer countries get Covid jabs but the facility has been hit by setbacks as wealthy nations hog doses straight off the production lines. Covax, co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi the Vaccine Alliance, and CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic […]
5.5 million Pfizer doses arriving in coming days, says US embassy official (Eagle News) Some 2.5 million doses of government-procured Sinovac vaccines and 883,500 Pfizer doses arrived in the country on Friday, Oct. 1, further boosting vaccine supplies. The delivery of over 3.38 million doses of vaccines on Friday brought to 74.7 million doses the total COVID vaccines delivered to the country. The 2.5 million Sinovac doses arrived shortly before 6 p.m. at Ninoy Aquno […]
NTF says 9.58 million COVID vaccine doses also delivered from Sept 13 to 19, making this the highest weekly delivery since February (Eagle News) — The Philippines received more than 2.5 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses in the past two days from the US government bringing to over 9.1 million doses the Pfizer vaccines so far delivered to the country. The latest arrival was the additional 561,600 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech shots on Monday evening, September 20, […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The vaccine-sharing facility Covax said Wednesday it should be able to provide Covid jabs to no more than 20 percent of people in poorer countries this year, far fewer than anticipated. Covax acknowledged that it now expects to access just 1.425 billion vaccine doses this year — far short of its goal of delivering two billion doses by year-end. That milestone was now expected to be reached only in the first […]
(Eagle News) – About 470,000 doses of the American-made Moderna vaccines arrived in the country on Sunday, Aug. 15, bringing to almost 4.3 million the total Moderna doses for the Philippine vaccination drive. The Singapore Airlines flight carrying 469,200 Moderna doses arrived at Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Sunday. “Of these doses, 319,200 doses were procured by the Philippine government, while 150,000 were purchased by the private sector led by […]
President Rodrigo Duterte welcomed the arrival Tuesday, Aug. 3, of more than three million doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States, which he said would be used to vaccinate the poor. Speaking during the arrival of the vaccine at the Villamor Air Base in Pasay City, President Duterte expressed his gratitude to the United States and the COVAX facility for the latest vaccine shipment. “I wish to thank the United States for […]
Over 5.85M vaccine doses delivered in 2 days bringing total jab doses in PHL to over 26M (Eagle News) In a span of two days, the Philippines received over 5.85 million doses of life-saving COVID-19 vaccines including the 3.2 million doses of Johnson and Johnson’s single-shot Janssen vaccines that arrived on Friday, July 16, and Saturday, July 17. Among the recent vaccine deliveries were the 1.15 million AstraZeneca doses which arrived on Friday morning, and […]
Senior citizens to be prioritized for single-dose J&J jab (Eagle News) — More than 3 million doses of the single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine from the COVAX Facility would be delivered to the country by July 19, further boosting the vaccine rollout. Because J&J vaccines only require a single for full vaccination, this means faster period for more Filipinos to be fully vaccinated. Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje, the chair of the National Vaccination Operations […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Two Chinese vaccine makers, Sinovac and Sinopharm, have agreed to immediately begin making more than 100 million Covid vaccine doses available to the Covax distribution facility, Gavi said Monday. “The agreements, which come at a time when the Delta variant is posing a rising risk to health systems, will begin to make 110 million doses immediately available to participants of the Covax facility, with options for additional doses,” said the vaccine […]
Total AstraZeneca doses in PHL at over 5.7M doses, total COVID jab doses reach 20.6M (Eagle News) – Over two million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines arrived on Friday, July 9, from the COVAX Facility, bringing to over 5.7 million doses the total AstraZeneca vaccines that have been delivered to the country. The flight that carried the 2,028,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrived at the NAIA Terminal 3 past 4 p.m. The delivery was welcomed by […]
