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Pasig orders 400,000 doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/reuters/01/11/vial.jpg"/><figcaption>A health-care worker holds a vial of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine at the Pentland Medical Practice in Currie, Scotland, Britain, Jan. 7, 2021.<em> Russell Cheyne/Pool/Reuters/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA <strong>(UPDATE)</strong> - Pasig City has ordered 400,000 coronavirus vaccine doses developed by British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, Mayor Vico Sotto said Monday.</p><p>Sotto said the city government on Sunday signed a tripartite agreement with the national government and AstraZeneca for the advance purchase of COVID-19 vaccine worth P100 million.</p><p>&quot;Actual quantity and date of delivery will depend on several factors,&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/VicoSotto/status/1348403163158638592">he wrote on Twitter</a>. &quot;We&#x27;ll buy from others too as opportunities arise.&quot;</p><p>The city government has earmarked P300 million to procure vaccines against the virus, which has infected some 9,915 people in Pasig City as of Jan. 8.</p><p>The city&#x27;s coronavirus tally includes 9,336 recoveries, 394 fatalities and 185 active cases.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/04/21/pasig-allots-p300-million-for-covid-19-vaccine-vico-sotto">Pasig allots P300 million for COVID-19 vaccines: Vico Sotto</a></li></ul><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TMq7e_Q4Lfo?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>Sotto said the AstraZeneca vaccine was &quot;relatively cheaper&quot; at $5 per dose or P240 and could be stored and transported at normal refrigerated conditions.</p><p>&quot;Slightly lower efficacy than others, but still very acceptable at 70 percent. Possibly 90 percent with adjusted dose,&quot; he said.</p><p>Some 200,000 Pasigueños are set to receive the vaccine jabs for free, with priority given to healthcare workers, older people and persons with disability (PWDs).</p><p>Sotto also appealed to the public to trust the vaccine&#x27;s safety and efficacy as some were hesitant in getting inoculated.</p><p>&quot;&#x27;Pag sinabi nila na safe, &#x27;pag sinabi nila na ligtas [at] mabisa ang isang bakuna, dapat maniwala po tayo. Magtiwala po tayo sa kanila. Magtiwala po tayo sa siyensiya,&quot; he said during Pasig City Hall&#x27;s flag-raising ceremony.</p><p>(If they say that the vaccine is safe and effective, we should trust them. We should trust science.)</p><p>Britain was the first country to approve the vaccine for emergency use.</p><p>The vaccine, also developed by Oxford University, is a &quot;viral vector vaccine,&quot; where a specially engineered virus that normally causes chimpanzees to get the common cold delivers genetic instructions to human cells to make the spike protein jutting out from the new coronavirus&#x27;s surface.</p><p>The AstraZeneca shot doesn&#x27;t require deep freezing at minus 70 degrees like the mRNA vaccine from Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech.</p><p>It can be kept in a standard refrigerator for 6 months and also cheaper to make.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/12/30/20/astrazenecaoxford-covid-19-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-uk">Britain first to approve AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine</a></li></ul><div><strong>$1 = P48.0530</strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9UM37lWno4s?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>MANILA - Pasig City has ordered 400,000 coronavirus vaccine doses developed by British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, Mayor Vico Sotto said Monday.</p>

MANILA - Pasig City has ordered 400,000 coronavirus vaccine doses developed by British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, Mayor Vico Sotto said Monday.