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The Philippines looks to start Covid-19 vaccine drive by February with doses from Sinovac

Posted on January 12, 2021 by admin

The Philippines is looking to begin its Covid-19 vaccination drive next month, when the first 50,000 doses it has secured from Chinese firm Sinovac are expected to arrive, according to government officials, as the country seeks to vaccinate more than half the population by this year.
Vaccine tsar Carlito Galvez Jnr, on Monday told a Senate inquiry that priority for the initial inoculations would be given to health care workers, and that the bulk of vaccinations would begin in the second half of 2021. His announcement came as the Philippines recorded 2,052 new cases, bringing the country’s total number of Covid-19 infections to almost 489,800, with 9,416 related deaths.
Galvez said US firm Pfizer had committed “a very sizeable amount” of doses, while the country had secured 13 million from AstraZeneca of Britain and 25 million from Russian firm Gamaleya. He said he was still in negotiations for between 15 million and 20 million doses from American company Moderna.
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“If we are successful, we will have 144 million doses (locked in by this month),” Galvez said, though he added that actual deliveries would be staggered and could take until 2023.
He added that Pfizer vaccine would only be given in Metro Manila and other highly urbanised cities where cold-storage facilities were present, and that the company would deliver the doses to the vaccination area itself.
At the same Senate hearing, the World Health Organization representative to the Philippines, Dr Rabindra Abeyasinghe, said the first shipment of vaccines could be arriving in Manila by February 20 under the Covax Facility.
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque on Monday said the government had also signed a deal with Sinovac for 25 million doses, following a separate agreement with the Serum Institute of India to buy 30 million doses from the United States’ Novavax.
He announced that while vaccinations would be free, people would not be able to choose a particular brand “since no one will be forced to be injected”. He added that those who turned down a vaccine would have to sign a waiver, and those who did so despite being in a priority group would “have to wait your turn with the rest of the people”.
Roque’s announcement did not sit well with the senators, particularly Senator Miguel Zubiri, an ally of President Rodrigo Duterte , who had already been infected. “Give the people the choice,” he urged.
Senator Francis Pangilinan, who called for the hearing on vaccines, pointed out that the delayed vaccine roll-out was not the only problem the government was facing. He cited the results of a recent Pulse Asia survey showing that 47 per cent of Filipinos had said they would not get vaccinated, primarily over concern about the safety of the vaccines.
Senate President Vicente Sotto told health secretary Francisco Duque during the hearing: “Right now you are being defeated in social media (where jokes are circulating that if) you get vaccinated, you start talking in Chinese.”
Duque said the government would launch a “massive” information campaign and was looking to inoculate more than half of the population in 2021, with some 82.5 billion pesos (US$1.7 billion) allocated for vaccine purchases this year, the bulk of which was from loans.
Meanwhile, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) director Rolando Enrique Domingo said the agency would closely scrutinise the efficacy of the vaccines, while vaccine tsar Galvez said if the FDA did not approve a vaccine, the Philippines would not go through with the deal.
Domingo said emergency use authorisation (EUA) for Pfizer would be out this week, while AstraZeneca would receive approval by the middle of next month.
Additional reporting by Reuters and Bloomberg
This article originally appeared on the South China Morning Post (www.scmp.com), the leading news media reporting on China and Asia.
Copyright (c) 2021. South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved.

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