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MANILA, Philippines — An additional 500,000 doses of CoronaVac, the COVID-19 vaccine from China’s Sinovac BioTech arrived in the Philippines on Sunday afternoon. The procured vaccine doses arrived in flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) flight PR359 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 2 at 5:18 p.m, according to a report by state-run media Peoples’ Television (PTV). This is the second batch of vaccines procured by the Philippine government that arrived in the country. The first batch, w hich was one million doses, arrived on March 29. The Philippines has procured some 25 million doses of the said vaccine. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. earlier said 1.5 million CoronaVac doses are expected to arrive in the Philippines this month. Apart from this, 500,000 doses of Russia’s Gamaleya Institute’s Sputnik V vaccine is expected to be delivered in April. Apart from the procured vaccines, China has sent one million donated CoronaVac vaccines in two ... » Learn More about 500,000 vaccines from China’s Sinovac arrive in Manila

MANILA, Philippines — Some 2 million doses of vaccines against COVID-19 developed by China’s Sinovac BioTech and Russia’s Gamaleya Institute are anticipated to arrive in the Philippines this month, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said Tuesday. Of the two million doses, 1.5 million will be Sinovac’s CoronaVac while 500,000 will be Gamaleya’s Sputnik V. Galvez also said that the government is still struggling to secure ample vaccine doses for Filipinos due to problems in global supply. In fact, he noted, the Philippines initially expected to receive 4 million doses of vaccines this month but that it was eventually trimmed to just 2 million doses. “Inaasahan din po namin sa mga susunod na mga buwan ay ganoon din po ang mangyayari, talagang ang ating sitwasyon po sa global supply ay napakahirap po iyong first quarter at saka second quarter,” he explained in a Palace briefing. (We are anticipating it will be the same in the coming months because our global supply situation is really ... » Learn More about Gov’t expects delivery of 2M doses of CoronaVac, Sputnik V this month