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117,000 Pfizer doses due under Covax–WHO exec

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AT least 117,000 doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine from the Covax facility may arrive in the country either in March or April, World Health Organization (WHO) Philippine representative Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe disclosed on Tuesday.

Abeyasinghe also said that 4.5 million more doses of AstraZeneca vaccine are expected to arrive in the country before the end of May. “We are looking at up to 4.5 million doses which will come during April and May,” Abeyasinghe said.

The WHO official reminded the government anew to follow the prioritization list. On Monday, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines in the country are not yet enough for the 1.8 million health-care workers (HCWs).

“We have 1.8 million estimated health care workers from hospitals down to the community across the different regions of the community but we still lack vaccines for them,” Vergeire said.

Vergeire also warned that the dependents of medical frontliners are not allowed to receive Covid-19 vaccine.

The dependents or family members, she said, cannot act as replacement for they are not part of the “priority list.” If the prioritization list is not followed, Vergeire said, the vaccine allocation from the Covax facility may be jeopardized.

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