Around 2.3 million additional COVID-19 vaccine doses is expected to arrive in the Philippines this month or early, the country’s vaccine czar said Monday.
National COVID-19 task force chief implementer Sec. Carlito Galvez Jr. expects 1.4 million more vaccine doses from China-based Sinovac, and almost a million doses from UK-based AstraZeneca.
“Within this month or early April, 979,200 AstraZeneca, with a total of 2,379,200 doses by March or early April,” he said.
The country has already received 600,000 Sinovac shots and more than 500,000 AstraZeneca doses earlier this month.
Meanwhile, a spike in infections is being observed for the past weeks. The country reported its largest single-day increase of COVID-19 cases in more than 6 months and its first case of the highly contagious variant first identified in Brazil.
