AN ADDITIONAL 50,000 doses of Sputnik V, Russia's vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), arrived in the Philippines on Sunday evening, May 30, 2021.
These brought to 80,000 the total doses of Sputnik V that have been delivered to the country. Including the other vaccine brands, the Philippines has received a total of 8,329,050 doses.
The Sputnik V shipment was on board Qatar Airways Flight QR928, which arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 before midnight Sunday.
The National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 said the vaccines were brought to the PharmaServ warehouse in Marikina City prior to deployment to centers of gravity nationwide.
The first two Sputnik V shipments arrived on May 1 and 12.
NTF chief implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. said one million doses of the Sinovac vaccine and 2.2 million doses of Pfizer are expected to arrive in the month of June.
Galvez said 5,120,023 doses have been administered.
He said they are hoping to inoculate around 10 million individuals in June. The target is to fully vaccinate 50 to 70 million before the year ends in order to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19. (Third Anne Peralta-Malonzo / VoxPop Philippines)