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1.8M Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by US arrive in Manila
A total of 1,813,500 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, donated by the US government through the COVAX facility, arrived in the Philippines on Sunday.
This shipment brings the total vaccine deliveries to the country to 77,410,640 doses as of Sunday.
On Saturday afternoon, 889,200 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, also a US donation via COVAX, had arrived.
National Task Force Against Covid-19 chief Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. stated that the country is nearing the vaccination of half of its eligible population.
He also projected that by the end of October, the Philippines would have received a total of 100 million vaccine doses, potentially fully inoculating about 50 million Filipinos and moving closer to herd immunity.
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