MANILA, Philippines — One million doses of the coronavirus vaccine made by Sinovac Biotech arrived in the Philippines Thursday, with another shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech jabs expected to be delivered within the day. The new batch raised the total number of CoronaVac vaccine doses received by the Philippines to 7.5 million, including a million doses donated by the Chinese government. Last week, the World Health Organization gave a greenlight to the emergency use of the two-dose CoronaVac. The Philippines is also expecting the arrival of 2.2 million Pfizer vaccine doses Thursday evening from the global vaccine-sharing COVAX facility. Thursday’s delivery, the biggest COVID-19 vaccine delivery in a single day, comes at a time when the government is expanding its inoculation campaign to include the working population.

Source: Philippine Star June 10, 2021 00:45 UTC