More regions to get Pfizer vax for first time: DOH The latest batch of the government-procured Pfizer vaccines that arrived Monday evening will be sent to provinces now capable of handling jabs that require ultralow temperature, a health official said. A total of 375,570 doses of US-made Pfizer arrived at the NAIA Terminal 3 in Pasay City, the second tranche of the 40 million Pfizer vaccine purchased by the government. “It will be distributed to the National Capital Region (NCR), Cebu, Davao, and others who have not yet received it before because capable na sila ngayon (because they are capable to handle the Pfizer jabs now),” Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Ma. Carolina Vidal-Taino said in a media interview.
MORE PFIZER VAX. The Philippines received the second tranche of the governmentprocured Pfizer vaccine on Monday (July 26, 2021) evening at the NAIA Terminal 3 in Pasay City. The latest shipment is part of the 40 million doses of Pfizer procured by the government. (PNA photo by Joey Razon)
Airport in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu on Monday at 6:23 p.m. to deliver the region’s share before it arrived at the NAIA Terminal 3 later that night.
of NAIA’s One Stop Shop ahead of its arrival and immediately taken to a designated cold storage facility.
The latest vaccine arrival On Tuesday, Davao Region brings the country’s is expected to receive their total vaccine supply additional doses. to 31,360,700 doses from six manufacturers Based on the latest - Sinovac, Oxford data from the Bureau of AstraZeneca, Gamaleya, Customs-Port of Ninoy Moderna, Pfizer and Aquino International Johnson&Johnson. Airport (BOC-NAIA) as The first shipment of of Tuesday, a total of As of July 25, a total of purchased Pfizer vaccine 3,364,920 doses of the 17,202,421 doses have containing 562,770 doses American-made vaccines been administered arrived last July 21. have been cleared for -- 6,089,314 are fully release. vaccinated while The Air Hong Kong plane 11,113,107 received their which carried the shipment The vaccines were first dose. (with Ferdinand landed first on Cebuprecleared by the Port Patinio/Christine Cudis) Mactan International Caraga INFOCUS
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