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Philippines welcomes over 739,000 China-donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses

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<p>MANILA - The Philippine government on Friday afternoon welcomed 739,200 Chinese-donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses, as the country battles record-high infections. </p><p>The first batch of Sinopharm jabs is part of the 1 million donated shots from China, the National Task Force Against COVID-19 said. </p><p>The vaccine doses arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 2 shortly before 6 p.m.</p><p>A second batch that will complete the 1 million doses is expected to arrive on Saturday, Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian earlier said. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/19/21/china-to-give-ph-addl-1-million-sinopharm-covid-19-jabs-envoy">READ: China to donate 1 million Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines to Philippines - envoy</a></li></ul><p>The Philippines received its <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/19/21/china-to-give-ph-addl-1-million-sinopharm-covid-19-jabs-envoy">first-ever</a> shipment of donated Sinopharm jabs from the United Arab Emirates on Aug. 11.</p><p>The country has so far taken delivery of 47.26 million COVID-19 vaccine doses since February. </p><p>As of Wednesday, the government has administered at least 29.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, with 16.2 million people already given their first dose.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/20/21/ph-posts-record-high-17231-new-covid-19-cases">READ: HIGHEST EVER: Philippines reports 17,231 new COVID-19 cases; total crosses 1.8 million</a></li></ul><p>A total of 12.8 million Filipinos, meanwhile, are already fully vaccinated against the disease. </p><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>

The first batch of Sinopharm jabs is part of the 1 million donated shots from China, the National Task Force Against COVID-19 said. 