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US shipping 2.5M more COVID-19 vaccine doses to Philippines

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="In this July 16, 2021 photo, some 3.2 million doses of Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccines donated by the US government through the COVAX vaccine-sharing program arrive at NAIA Terminal 3 in Pasay City. On Thursday, the White House announced a shipment of about 2.58 million more doses. ABS-CBN News/file" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/news/09/16/20210716-covid-vaccine-covax-j-j-aa-6907.jpg"/><figcaption>In this July 16, 2021 photo, some 3.2 million doses of Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccines donated by the US government through the COVAX vaccine-sharing program arrive at NAIA Terminal 3 in Pasay City. On Thursday, the White House announced a shipment of about 2.58 million more doses. <em>ABS-CBN News/file</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>WASHINGTON—The US government will begin shipping 2.58 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccine to the Philippines on Thursday through the COVAX global distribution program, a White House official said on Thursday.</p><p>The latest shipments of vaccines made by Pfizer Inc and Germany&#x27;s BioNTech, bring the total number of vaccines sent to the Philippines to just over 9 million, the official said. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/16/21/40-million-covid-19-shots-administered-in-ph">Philippines tops 40 million COVID-19 vaccine doses given</a></li></ul><p>Scientific teams and legal and regulatory authorities from both countries worked together to ensure prompt delivery of safe and effective vaccine lots to the Asian nation, the official added. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/16/21/global-demand-squeezing-supply-of-tocilizumab-galvez">&#x27;Wala tayong magagawa&#x27;: Global demand squeezing supply of tocilizumab - Galvez</a></li></ul><p>Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden&#x27;s national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with the foreign and defense ministers of the Philippines during their visit to Washington to mark the 70th anniversary of the two countries&#x27; Mutual Defense Treaty.</p><p>At the time, Sullivan announced that the United States would provide an additional $11.3 million in COVID-19 assistance to the Philippines, bringing total U.S. COVID-19 assistance to the Philippines since the start of the pandemic to $37 million, in addition to the millions of vaccine doses donated. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal Editing by Chris Reese and David Gregorio)</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/15/21/higit-753000-pfizer-vaccine-doses-dumating-sa-bansa">Higit 753,000 pang doses ng Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine dumating sa bansa</a></li></ul><div> </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=1775891" 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>

The shipment will begin on Thursday through the COVAX global distribution program, a White House official said on Thursday.