As hopes for coronavirus vaccines continue to rise, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno on Tuesday posted about his recently concluded meeting with the pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc., adding that his local government allocated an additional P50 million expected to be used in buying COVID-19 vaccine.
Just this Monday, November 10, Pfizer announced that the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing was more than 90 percent effective.
According to Moreno, the virtual meeting was to get the latest developments regarding Pfizer’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
“Kakatapos lang po ng ating pakikipagpulong sa top executives ng Pfizer sa ating bansa upang kumuha ng update sa developments ng bakuna laban sa COVID-19,” Moreno said in a Facebook post.
[We just finished meeting with Pfizer’s top executives in our country to get updates on the COVID-19 vaccine.]
Pfizer and German partner BioNTech SE are considered the first drugmakers to release successful data from a large-scale clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine.
