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Philippines receives 3.6M COVID-19 vaccine doses
More than 3.6 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, consisting of Moderna and AstraZeneca, were delivered to the Philippines on Friday.
The shipment included 2,948,000 Moderna doses (2,102,000 government-procured and 846,000 purchased by the private sector) and 698,600 AstraZeneca doses bought by the private sector.
These deliveries bring the total number of vaccine doses received by the Philippines to over 155 million.
As of December 8, more than 39.5 million Filipinos have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The Philippines has administered at least 94.2 million doses since the mass immunization program started on March 1.
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