Philippines receives over 3.6M Moderna, AstraZeneca vaccines

The Philippines received over 3.6 million additional doses of Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines on Friday, December 10.

This batch includes 2.948 million Moderna doses (2.102 million government-procured and 846,000 private sector purchases) and 698,600 AstraZeneca doses purchased by the private sector.

On Thursday, December 9, another shipment of 1.273 million Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrived, with 1.018 million Pfizer doses procured by the government and 255,200 AstraZeneca doses bought by the private sector.

As of December 8, over 39.5 million Filipinos are fully vaccinated, and a total of at least 94.2 million vaccine doses have been administered since mass immunization began in March.

The United States Embassy's economic counselor praised the Philippines for recording zero COVID-19 cases in some major hospitals.