![]() ![]() The delivery is now expected to arrive in May instead. Hours before the expected arrival of the shipment on Wednesday, April 28, Malacañang announced that the delivery of the Philippines’ first batch of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines from Russia was postponed due to “logistical challenges.” An initial delivery of 15,000 doses was expected to arrive in Metro Manila at around 10:45 pm on Wednesday, via a Qatar Airways plane from Doha, Qatar. End-April to early-May – 195,000 Pfizer doses.April 28 – 18,000 Gamaleya doses (initial delivery to be used for practice in handling Sputnik V vaccine).India, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, had put a temporary hold on exports of AstraZeneca’s vaccine being manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), as officials focus on meeting rising domestic demand. Like the Philippines, vaccine deliveries had been delayed for other Asian countries, including Vietnam, Indonesia, and South Korea. In 2021, Galvez asserted the Philippines would gain access to at least 140 million vaccines, including those purchased by the government from vaccine manufacturers and drug firms like AstraZeneca, Novavax, Moderna, Sinovac, Johnson and Johnson (Janssen Pharmaceutica), and the Gamaleya Research Institute. Facing growing pressure to speed up vaccinations in the Philippines, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr remained confident the government could meet its target of vaccinating 70% of the population, saying the bulk of the country’s supply of COVID-19 shots will start arriving in April.įor Galvez and the Duterte government’s pandemic task force, a schedule of expected COVID-19 vaccine deliveries is crucial if they are to hold up their promise to achieve herd immunity in the country by the end of 2021.Īdding to the urgency of vaccinations, the Philippines – one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic in Southeast Asia – is once again experiencing a deadly spike in infections, with daily cases reported shattering records over a year into the outbreak. ![]()
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