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1 million more Sinovac COVID-19 shots to arrive in PH Sunday

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/news/06/05/20210605-sinovac-delivery.jpg"/><figcaption><em>From the Facebook page of Philippine Ambassador to China Chito Sta. Romana</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA— Another batch of 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from China&#x27;s Sinovac is set to arrive in Manila on Sunday, boosting the country&#x27;s supply amid efforts to speed up inoculations. </p><p>Philippine Ambassador to China Chito Sta. Romana shared on Facebook photos of the shipment being prepared and checked by a Philippine embassy team. </p><p>&quot;The first shipment for the month of June of one million doses of Sinovac vaccines is scheduled to arrive in Manila on Sunday, June 6,&quot; he said in a post Friday. </p><p>&quot;These photos show the shipment being prepared &amp; inspected by the Philippine Embassy team of First Secretary Winston Almeda &amp; Attaché Dada Aromin in a refrigerated warehouse in Daxing, Beijing,&quot; he said.</p><p>He added that &quot;more shipments are planned in the following weeks.&quot; </p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/chito.romana/posts/10159127024186830" data-width="auto"> </div><p>The fresh batch of Sinovac jabs, procured by the Department of Health, raises to 6.5 million the total number of shots from the Chinese brand. </p><p>Of this total, 1 million doses were donated by the Chinese government and the rest were procured.</p><p>The Chinese brand accounts for a chunk of the country&#x27;s total COVID-19 vaccine count. The Philippines has taken delivery of a total 8,329,050 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from various brands, 5.5 million of which are Sinovac vaccines. </p><p>Some 2.556 million doses of AstraZeneca&#x27;s vaccine and 193,050 from Pfizer earlier arrived via the vaccine-sharing platform COVAX, while the country has received 80,000 procured shots from Russia&#x27;s Gamaleya Institute. </p><p>The Philippines is expected to get a total 3.4 million vaccine doses throughout June. </p><p>As of June 2, the Philippines has administered over 5.38 million vaccine shots against COVID-19, including 4,088,422 first doses. A total of 1,293,750 people have meanwhile completed the two-dose regimen. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/31/21/covid-vaccines-philippines-june">Philippines to get 3.4 million COVD-19 vaccines in June</a></li></ul><div class="infogram-embed" data-id="_/yFVE69R1WlSdqY3aCsBF" data-title="COVID-19 VACCINE TRACKER PH" data-type="interactive"> </div><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></div>

<p>MANILA— Another batch of 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from China's Sinovac is set to arrive in Manila on Sunday, boosting the country's supply amid efforts to speed up inoculations. <br /> </p>

MANILA— Another batch of 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from China's Sinovac is set to arrive in Manila on Sunday, boosting the country's supply amid efforts to speed up inoculations.