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Philippines expects to get 16 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines this July - official

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<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=1724743" 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><p>MANILA (<strong>UPDATE</strong>) - The Philippines projects to receive a total of 16 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines this month, of which, more than 3 million have arrived these past few days, an official said Sunday.</p><p>Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, who also co-chairs the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, told ABS-CBN’s TeleRadyo that by the end of July, the country would have already received some 32 or 33 million vaccine doses in total since the first delivery on Feb. 28.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/28/21/philippines-receives-first-official-supply-of-covid-19-vaccines">Philippines receives first official supply of COVID-19 vaccines</a></li></ul><p>“So far, as of July 9 ano po, 20,607,570 vaccine (doses) na po ang dumating… May kararating lang po (na) Sputnik V… ‘Yan po ang pinakahuli,” Nograles said.</p><p>(So far, as of July 9, there are already 20,607,570 doses that have arrived in the country… The last to arrive are Sputnik V vaccines.)</p><p>Of the total, more than 10.4 million doses were government-procured, seven million doses were sourced from the COVAX facility, more than two million doses came from bilateral donations, while the rest were initial deliveries of LGU and private sector-procured doses, the National Task Force against COVID-19 said.</p><p>“Inaasahan natin for the month of July alone, ang expected natin… is about 16 million,” Nograles said.</p><p>(We expect 16 million for the month of July alone.)</p><p>The latest batch to arrive in the country are 37,800 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, received on Saturday night. On Friday night, 132,200 doses of the same brand were also delivered.</p><p>More than 2 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, from the COVAX facility, were received as well on Friday, while a million doses, donated by Japan, arrived late Thursday.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/07/10/21/philippines-receives-2-million-more-doses-of-astrazeneca-jabs">Philippines receives 2 million more doses of AstraZeneca jabs</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/08/21/philippines-japan-donated-covid-vaccine">1 million Japan-donated COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Philippines</a></li></ul><p>Among the supplies expected to arrive this month are those from Johnson &amp; Johnson from the “sharing agreement with the United States” and COVAX, Moderna, Pfizer, and Sinovac.</p><p>Nograles said that for August, around 14 million doses are expected to arrive.</p><p>As of July 7, the Philippines has administered 12.4 million doses, of which nearly 9.4 million are first doses, and the remaining more than 3 million are second doses.</p><p>“Siguro, sa NCR, napi-predict namin na yung mga maliliit na lugar ng NCR, baka mga 70 percent na po ma-reach natin. Like San Juan city, dahil sa population niya, madali tayang maka-reach ng 70 percent. At least, lahat ng NCR cities, mabilis yung kanilang rollout,” Nograles said as he notes that the November target of inoculating 70 percent of the country&#x27;s population is doable.</p><p>(We are predicting that smaller localities in the National Capital Region will already inoculate 70 percent of their population. Like San Juan City, because of its relatively smaller population, it&#x27;s easy to reach 70 percent. The vaccine rollout in all NCR cities is quite fast.) </p><p>San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora on Friday said the city has already vaccinated 90 percent of its target population against COVID-19.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/10/21/san-juan-city-vaccinates-90-percent-of-target-population-vs-covid-19-mayor">San Juan City vaccinates 90 percent of target population vs COVID-19: mayor</a></li></ul><p>Officials have earlier said that the government targets to vaccinate 58-70 million individuals in the country this year to achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus.</p><p>As of Saturday, the Philippines has recorded a total of 1,467,119 total coronavirus infections, of which 49,968 or 3.4 percent are active, according to the Department of Health&#x27;s (DOH) latest bulletin.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/10/21/philippines-covid19-cases-update-july102021">PH counts 5,675 more COVID-19 cases, over 7,000 new recoveries</a></li></ul><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>The Philippines projects to receive a total of 16 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines this month, of which, more than 3 million have arrived these past few days, an official said Sunday.</p>

The Philippines projects to receive a total of 16 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines this month, of which, more than 3 million have arrived these past few days, an official said Sunday.