5.6 Million Vaccine Doses from AstraZeneca & Pfizer Expected in First Quarter

At least 5.6 million vaccine doses produced by AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech are expected to arrive in the Philippines during the first quarter of 2021 for the country’s national vaccination program.

Carlito Galvez Jr, National Task Force chief and vaccine czar Secretary, said “Today, we received a letter from Aurélia Nguyen, managing director of the World Health Organization-led Covax facility, officially informing the Philippine government that the country stands to receive a total of 9,407,400 doses from the two pharmaceutical makers within the projected first and second quarters of this year,”

Galvez added, “The arrival of these Covax vaccines is a welcome development as we await the vaccines that we have negotiated, which are expected to be delivered in the succeeding second, third, and fourth quarters of this year.”

The Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted both AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA), which means these vaccines can be distributed and administered once they are available.

Source: BusinessMirror