US sends more than 8M COVID-19 vaccines to Philippines, BangladeshVaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. and US Embassy Chargé d'affaires Heather Variava receive a shipment containing doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on October 1, 2021. WASHINGTON, United States — The United States announced Friday it is sending more than eight million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Bangladesh and the Philippines in the latest wave of aid to a world still struggling to tame the pandemic. Five shipments totaling 5,575,050 doses will go to the Philippines by next week, a White House official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. Another 2,508,480 doses will arrive early next week in Bangladesh, the official said. Hard-hit Bangladesh has already received millions of US vaccine doses, including another 2.5 million sent just last week.

Source: Philippine Star October 01, 2021 21:45 UTC