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| Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, during a vaccination campaign at the State Hospital in Cailungo, San Marino. (Photo by=AFP/Andreas Solaro) |
[Asia News Communication = Reporter Reakkana] MANILA — The second tranche comprising 480,000 doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine will arrive in the country on April 29, according to Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. of the National Task Force against COVID-19. PhilStar reported that Galvez added that the Sputnik V vaccines will arrive with another 500,000 doses of Sinovac jabs from China.
An initial batch of 15,000 vaccines from Russia’s Gamaleya Institute is scheduled to arrive tomorrow. The vaccine czar also said that the COVAX Facility may be able to deliver 195,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine by the end of the month. Four local government units in the National Capital Region (NCR) are set to receive the initial 15,000 doses of Sputnik V, the Department of Health (DOH) said. According to Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, the four LGUs were chosen by the Vaccine Cluster of the Inter-Agency Task Force to do the simulation of COVID-19 inoculation using the Sputnik V vaccines.
Galvez said that in May, two million doses each of Sputnik V and Sinovac as well an initial batch of 194,000 doses of Moderna vaccines will be delivered. The Philippines is eyeing a stockpile of around seven to eight million doses of coronavirus vaccine in June, including 2.5 million CoronaVac, two million doses of Sputnik, and 1.3 million doses of AstraZeneca.
