Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. made the announcement yesterday as the government rolled out its vaccination program following the arrival on Sunday of 600,000 donated doses of Sinovac vaccines from China.
Galvez said CoronaVac of Sinovac and Russia’s Sputnik V are the only available vaccines due to heavy global demand.
“That is why we have procurement this coming March. We have one million from Sinovac,” Galvez said.
He said there is already a purchase order or PO for the acquisition of one million doses for P700 million.
“We have funds. We have P700 million funds,” Galvez pointed out. “Once we sign it, the one million doses will arrive this coming March in tranches. We saw 500,000 doses loaded onto an airplane. So, that would be in two tranches.”
Sinovac Biotech general manager Helen Yang told ANC they are still discussing details of the shipment with the Philippine government.
“The vaccine showed a good safety profile and strong efficacy results to prevent the severe cases and could lower down the burdens of the health care system,” Yang said.
“We sincerely hope that the Philippines will start to use the vaccine and help reboot the economy,” she added.
Galvez said the country’s supply agreements with other COVID-19 vaccine brands Moderna, Johnson and Johnson, and Novavax were still pending.
Aside from Sinovac, other COVID-19 vaccine brands issued emergency use authorization by the Philippine FDA were Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca.
Galvez also said there is no definite date yet for the arrival of 3.5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines due to the global shortage of vaccines.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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