Philippines gets second batch of 1.6M J&J vaccine doses from US

The Philippines received its second shipment of 1.6 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's single-shot COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday, July 17.

This brings the total number of donated doses from the US to 3.2 million since Friday.

Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. stated that at least 100,000 doses will be distributed to each region in the country.

The vaccines are part of an 80 million dose donation by the US government worldwide this month through the COVAX facility.

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