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Philippines gets 500,000 more Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine doses

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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/04/22/20210411-sinovac.jpg"/><figcaption>A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a &quot;Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine&quot; sticker and a medical syringe in front of displayed China flag in this illustration taken, Oct. 30, 2020. <em>Dado Ruvic, Reuters/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA<strong> (UPDATE)</strong>— The Philippines on Thursday received another delivery of 500,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from China&#x27;s Sinovac Biotech. </p><p>The Philippine Airlines flight carrying the purchased jabs landed at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport around 5 p.m. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="tl">Lumapag na sa NAIA ang eroplanong may lulang 500,000 doses ng Sinovac COVID vaccine na binili ng Pilipinas. <a href="https://t.co/Wlm9dhXnuZ">pic.twitter.com/Wlm9dhXnuZ</a></p>— Vivienne Gulla (@VivienneGulla) <a href="https://twitter.com/VivienneGulla/status/1385162789342257155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2021</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>The shipment brings the Philippines&#x27; COVID-19 vaccine stock to 3.525 million, of which at least 1.6 million doses have been administered.</p><p>Out of the latest Sinovac batch, about 100,000 will be deployed to Metro Manila within 2 to 3 days, said vaccine &quot;czar&quot; Carlito Galvez Jr.</p><p>&quot;Inaasahan po natin na iyong administration nito is within one week matatapos po kaagad,&quot; he said. </p><p>(We expect that its administration will be completed within one week.)</p><p>Earlier this month, President Rodrigo Duterte said a swarm of some 240 Chinese boats in the West Philippine Sea &quot;will not be an obstacle&quot; to Beijing and Manila&#x27;s COVID-19 vaccine cooperation. </p><p>Galvez, a former military general, said the maritime dispute was a &quot;separate&quot; issue from the COVID-19 shots. </p><p>The Philippines has one of Asia&#x27;s worst COVID-19 outbreaks and has faced difficulties securing vaccine supplies.</p><p>Sinovac shots form the bulk of the Philippines&#x27; vaccine inventory so far, a million of which were donated by China. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/12/30/20/confused-between-sinovac-and-sinopharm-what-to-know-about-their-covid-19-vaccines">Confused between Sinovac and Sinopharm? What to know about their COVID-19 vaccines</a></li></ul><p>Besides Sinovac, the government also expects half a million doses of Sputnik V, which it procured, and 195,000 doses of Pfizer jabs from the COVAX facility this April.</p><p>The Philippines aims to vaccinate 70 million people this year or two-thirds of its people this year to achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus.</p><div><strong>– with reports from Vivienne Gulla and Jamaine Punzalan of ABS-CBN News, and from Reuters </strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO </strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1655605" width="100%"></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><div class="infogram-embed" data-id="_/yFVE69R1WlSdqY3aCsBF" data-title="COVID-19 VACCINE TRACKER PH" data-type="interactive"> </div><script type="text/javascript">!function(e,i,n,s){var t='InfogramEmbeds',d=e.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement('script');o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src='https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js',d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,'infogram-async');</script>

<p>MANILA <strong>(UPDATE)</strong>— The Philippines on Thursday received another delivery of 500,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from China's Sinovac Biotech. </p>

MANILA (UPDATE) — The Philippines on Thursday received another delivery of 500,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from China's Sinovac Biotech.