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More CoronaVac doses arriving this month
Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. announced that 1 million procured doses of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines are expected to arrive in the country on March 21.
An additional 400,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines will be donated by the Chinese government, with both shipments bringing the total for March to 1.4 million doses.
This follows the arrival of 600,000 donated Sinovac doses on February 28 and 487,200 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines on March 4.
More AstraZeneca vaccines, totaling around 4.5 million doses, are expected to be delivered until May, with 1.5 million doses arriving monthly.
The Department of Health met with Metro Manila hospitals on Saturday to discuss the recent spike in hospital admissions.
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