Manila Bulletin
BOC clears over 3.3M Pfizer-BioNTech jabs
Over 324,090 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, purchased by the national government, arrived in the Philippines on Monday night, July 26.
The shipment of 324,090 US-made doses touched down at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Pasay City.
This batch is part of the 1.4 million doses committed by Pfizer-BioNTech to the Philippines.
The Bureau of Customs-Port of NAIA has cleared the shipment.
Since May, a total of 3,364,920 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines have been cleared by the BOC.
The country has now received various vaccine brands including Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson, Sinovac, AstraZeneca, and Sputnik V.
As of July 25, a total of 17,202,421 vaccine doses had been administered nationwide.
The Philippines has recorded a cumulative total of 1,555,396 COVID-19 cases, with 1,473,009 recoveries and 27,247 deaths.
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