AT least 50 million more COVID-19 doses are expected to be delivered this year, according to the government’s COVID-19 response team
National Task Force Against COVID 19 (NTF) chief implementer and vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez, Jr. said the Philippines expects to receive at least 50 to 60 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in the remaining two months of the year.
The COVAX facility, he said, has also confirmed the delivery of an additional 10 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines in December and January 2022.
Around 45 to 50 million doses of procured vaccines from different manufacturers will also be delivered from November to December, Galvez added.
The United States has also confirmed an additional donation of two million doses to be made through the COVAX facility.
“We are expecting the arrival of two million [doses] more vaccines next week that will bring the donations through the COVAX facility to 26 million [doses] and about 18 million of those will be from direct donations from the United States,” said US Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Heather Variava.
Galvez said that vaccine donations from partner countries are expected to arrive in the coming days.
The Philippines has secured a total of 193 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for 2021. Galvez said the rest of the shipments will be delivered in the first quarter of 2022.