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Philippines receives 1M doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11
The Philippines received over a million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines specifically for children aged 5 to 11.
A total of 1,032,000 government-procured Pfizer vaccine doses arrived on Saturday night, March 12, 2022.
This shipment follows another delivery of 1,080,000 doses of reformulated Pfizer vaccines for children that arrived on Friday night, March 11, 2022.
As of March 9, the Philippines had administered 137,351,822 vaccine doses, with 63,992,620 individuals fully vaccinated and 10,675,663 receiving booster shots.
The national government aims to fully vaccinate 77 million Filipinos by the end of March and 90 million by June 30, 2022.
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Over one million doses of government-procured Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children arrived in the Philippines on Wednesday night.
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Bacolod City is expecting the arrival of an additional 30,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines specifically for children aged 5 to 11 this week.
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The Philippines' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine for individuals aged 6 and above.
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The Department of Health (DOH) reported that at least 65 million Filipinos have completed their primary vaccination series against COVID-19.
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As of March 9, approximately 64 million Filipinos have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the National Vaccinations Operations Center (NVOC).
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