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NTF data show 52.1M Filipinos already fully vaxxed
The Philippines has completed the procurement of 13 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine with the arrival of 150,540 doses.
The private sector secured an additional seven million doses of the Moderna vaccine.
The government is anticipating the arrival of Pfizer vaccines for children aged five to eleven years old by mid-January.
A shipment of 2,703,870 doses of US-donated Pfizer vaccines is scheduled to arrive on Sunday.
Health officials are encouraging the public to get their booster shots, which are available three months after the second dose of most vaccines or two months after the single-dose Janssen vaccine.
As of January 8, 2022, over 52.1 million Filipinos have been fully vaccinated, with 3,082,514 having received booster shots.
A total of 112,745,559 doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered nationwide.
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The Philippine government aims to administer 90 million full vaccine doses by the end of June and 71 million booster shots by the end of the third quarter of the year.
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The Philippines received an additional 168,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, a donation from the United States through the COVAX Facility.
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Around 90 million Filipinos are targeted to be inoculated against COVID-19 by the end of the second quarter of 2022 or in June.
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The Philippines is set to receive 5 to 10 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 5 to 11 by the third week of January.
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The Philippines has secured approximately $800 million in loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and the World Bank (WB) to fund the procurement of COVID-19 booster shots.
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