MANILA – The number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines donated by Germany to the Philippines via the COVAX Facility has surpassed 10 million, following the 1,531,000 doses of the Moderna jab arrived on Thursday.
The European country is delighted to donate another batch in support of the Philippines’ “very good and well-functioning” vaccination program, German Embassy Economic Counselor Georg Maue said.
“With the pandemic continuing, we believe it’s very important to build on our strongest instrument, which we have and it is still vaccination,” Maue claimed in a media interview at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City.
National Task Force Against Covid-19 (NTF) chief and vaccine czar, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., thanked Germany and the COVAX Facility for the latest donation.
“We would like to thank COVAX for their continued support to the Philippines, particularly its donors, the EU (European Union), which already donated more or less 60 million doses,” Galvez said.
He regarded the donations as a “Christmas gift” to all Filipinos across the country.
Moreover, he emphasized that all Filipinos who received their second dose of the Covid-19 jab at least three months ago are now eligible for their booster shot.
