The Philippines sent its biggest plane to Moscow to secure covid19 vaccines when it procured 2.7 million doses of Sputnik V on Tuesday afternoon as the government intends to inject between 1 and 1.5 million doses daily beginning next week.
Overall, the Philippines has received 108,912,460 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, both procured and donated.
PAL has been contracted by government to fly vaccines from Beijing to Moscow home. See our earlier report here.
President Rodrigo Duterte earlier urged local government units to speed up their vaccination drives to meet the government's goal of achieving population protection by the end of the year and open back the economy.
To date, the Philippines has administered 59,473,662 doses of Covid-19 vaccines nationwide, with 27,442,969 already fully protected, which is still below the WHO herd immunity guidelines.
The country has received a total of 4,390,000 doses from Russia-based manufacturer.
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