This included 60 million AstraZeneca vaccines that have not received emergency approval in the US, as well as 20 million more doses of Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines from the country’s stockpile. US President Joe Biden earlier pledged to have some 80 million vaccines delivered overseas by the end of June as part of a strategy to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. On May 28, Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez said the Philippines will be among countries that will receive donated vaccines from the United States’ surplus supply of shots. 2 million AstraZeneca doses from COVAX (third week of June).June 10 – 2.28 million Pfizer doses from COVAX.Galvez did not provide a reason for the delay, only saying that there had been a “slip” in total vaccine deliveries expected for the month. “The good thing here is these vaccines aren’t lost, it was just moved to June 7 to 11,” he said.Īside from supplies of Pfizer’s vaccine from COVAX, volumes of the Sputnik V vaccine have not yet arrived in the country. Weeks later on May 26, Galvez said during a televised briefing that the 2 million Pfizer vaccines expected in May from COVAX would be delivered in June instead. Galvez said this became possible after COVAX committed to advance the delivery of 1.1 million doses scheduled to arrive in June. In a briefing on May 14, Galvez said the Philippines was now expecting to receive up to 2.2 million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine in May, doubling the initial 1.1 million doses first announced to arrive within the month. May 12 – 15,000 Sputnik V doses (component 2). ![]() ![]() May 10 – 193,050 Pfizer doses from COVAX.May 8 – 2,030,400 AstraZeneca doses from COVAX.May 1 – 15,000 Sputnik V doses (component 1).The delivery is now expected to arrive in May instead. Hours before the expected arrival of the shipment on Wednesday, April 28, Malacañang announced that the delivery of the Philippines’ first batch of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines from Russia was postponed due to “logistical challenges.” An initial delivery of 15,000 doses was expected to arrive in Metro Manila at around 10:45 pm on Wednesday, via a Qatar Airways plane from Doha, Qatar. End-April to early-May – 195,000 Pfizer doses.April 28 – 18,000 Gamaleya doses (initial delivery to be used for practice in handling Sputnik V vaccine).India, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, had put a temporary hold on exports of AstraZeneca’s vaccine being manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), as officials focus on meeting rising domestic demand. Like the Philippines, vaccine deliveries had been delayed for other Asian countries, including Vietnam, Indonesia, and South Korea. In 2021, Galvez asserted the Philippines would gain access to at least 140 million vaccines, including those purchased by the government from vaccine manufacturers and drug firms like AstraZeneca, Novavax, Moderna, Sinovac, Johnson and Johnson (Janssen Pharmaceutica), and the Gamaleya Research Institute. Facing growing pressure to speed up vaccinations in the Philippines, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr remained confident the government could meet its target of vaccinating 70% of the population, saying the bulk of the country’s supply of COVID-19 shots will start arriving in April.įor Galvez and the Duterte government’s pandemic task force, a schedule of expected COVID-19 vaccine deliveries is crucial if they are to hold up their promise to achieve herd immunity in the country by the end of 2021.Īdding to the urgency of vaccinations, the Philippines – one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic in Southeast Asia – is once again experiencing a deadly spike in infections, with daily cases reported shattering records over a year into the outbreak.
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