Philippines gets 500,000 more doses of Sinovac vaccineMANILA, Philippines — Another half a million doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech arrived in the Philippines Thursday morning. The Cebu Pacific flight carrying 500,000 CoronaVac doses landed at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport at 7:37 a.m. The delivery raised the number of jabs the government has received from the Chinese drugmaker to 5.5 million, a million of which were donated by Beijing. “More vaccines from Sinovac are expected in June and the following months,” he said Wednesday. CoronaVac is one of the four vaccines being used in the government’s inoculation drive, along with the jabs developed by AstraZeneca, Gamaleya Research Institute and Pfizer-BioNTech.

Source: Philippine Star May 20, 2021 00:56 UTC