PH secures supply of 25 M COVID-19 vaccines from China

50,000 doses arriving next month

- GENALYN KABILING

The country's long wait for the coronavirus vaccines will be over soon. The government has secured an initial supply of 25 million Chinesemade coronavirus vaccines. The initial 50,000 doses will be shipped to the country next month, Malacañang announced Monday.

The government will pay for these safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines developed by Sinovac but is hopeful that China will donate some of these life-saving medicine due to close bilateral relations, according to presidential spokesman Harry Roque.

Mayroon tayong magandang balita. Sang-ayon sa Department of Health, magkakaroon na po tayo ng ating unang 25 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Sinovac at darating na ang bakuna sa Pilipinas sa susunod na buwan (We have good news. According to the Department of Health, we will have an initial 25 million doses of COVID19 vaccines from Sinovac and the vaccines will arrive in the Philippines next month),” Roque said during a televised briefing.

After the first shipment of 50,000 vaccine doses next month, Roque said the next batch of 950,000 doses will arrive in the country by March.

Another one million vaccine doses will arrive in April, followed by a million in May, two million doses in June, and the rest will be delivered until December 2021.