MANILA, Philippines — Virus epicenter Metro Manila received the biggest share of the country’s initial doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the Department of Health said Monday. In a briefing, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said 69% of the 193,050 jabs supplied by global vaccine sharing alliance COVAX facility went to the capital region. San Juan City, which began inoculating its citizens with the Pfizer-BioNTech jabs last week, rented an ultra-cold freezer to store the vaccines. “They received fewer because we would want to equally allocate different vaccines to various local governments in Metro Manila,” the DOH official said. The country is expected to receive as many as 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Source: Philippine Star May 17, 2021 05:03 UTC