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250.8k doses of Moderna vaccine to arrive — Palace
By Nidz Godino
"It is expected that tomorrow, July 15, 250,800 doses of Moderna vaccine will arrive," presidential spokesman Herminio Roque Jr. said iduring briefing over 250,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine developed US biotech company Moderna are expected to arrive in the Philippines on July 15, Malacañang.
Vaccines arriving Thursday will be the second batch delivered as part of the total 20 million shots procured from the American firm through tripartite deal between government and private sector. The initial delivery of 249,600 doses arrived last June 27,2021.
He also said that "194,000 doses are for government of the Philippines while remaining 56,400 are for private sector."
Earlier Philippines has received shipment of one million doses of COVID-19 vaccine made by Sinovac Biotech. Another 1.5 million vaccines from Chinese firm are expected to arrive on July 17,2021.
Deliveries come as Metro Manila cities grapple with dwindling supply from the national government, forcing several local governments to suspend second dose vaccination of Sinovac recipients.
The latest data from National Task Force Against COVID-19 show that only 3.2% of the Philippines' total 109 million population have been fully vaccinated since government launched its inoculation campaign in March,2021.
Another 8.8% of Filipinos have received the first of two doses as of July 11.
Galvez told government's pandemic task force it would be " big challenge" to achieve herd immunity by the end of 2021 with over 74 million of the target population still waiting to be fully vaccinated.
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