Duterte to welcome AstraZeneca vaccines; Pfizer delayed
President Duterte plans to personally welcome the arrival of 3.5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines on March 1.
The first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines from COVAX is now expected in the second quarter due to high global demand.
The government will procure an additional one million doses of Sinovac's CoronaVac this month, with a total of 5.1 million doses arriving by the end of the first quarter.
President Duterte said the country may return to normalcy in early 2023 as it fast-tracks its immunization program following the arrival of initial vaccine shipments.
Around 525,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines will arrive on March 1 through the COVAX facility.
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