Manila Bulletin
CEB transports 500,000 doses of Sinovac
Cebu Pacific transported 500,000 doses of Sinovac's CoronaVac vaccine from Beijing, China, to Manila on Thursday, April 29, 2021.
This shipment marks the airline's first government-procured vaccine delivery, arriving at NAIA at 7:18 AM via a chartered Airbus A330 flight.
The vaccines were immediately released to the Department of Health for distribution to various provinces.
Cebu Pacific has so far transported over 760,000 vaccine doses, with about 264,000 delivered to six key cities.
Vaccine czar, Sec. Carlito Galvez, Jr. emphasized the importance of airline collaboration in expediting vaccine distribution to combat the pandemic.
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