Philippines gets 75K Sinovac doses for BARMM
The Philippines received 75,000 doses of Sinovac's CoronaVac vaccines on Wednesday to boost the vaccination drive in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
Of these, 50,000 were donated by Qatar and 25,000 from Sinovac Biotech.
President Duterte urged BARMM chairman Murad Ebrahim to increase vaccine uptake amid the region's lowest vaccination rate of only 27 percent.
DOH Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje warned of a potential surge in COVID-19 cases due to low vaccination coverage.
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