Philippines to buy extra 20 mln doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine – The Peninsula Qatar

Philippines to buy extra 20 mln doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine – The Peninsula Qatar

Manila: The Philippines will buy an additional 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE, seeking to fully inoculate more than 80% of its population by mid-2022, a government official said on Sunday.

A deal has been signed with Pfizer, bringing the government's total purchases of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to 60 million doses, said Carlito Galvez Jr, who is in charge of the Southeast Asian country's COVID-19 vaccine procurement.