Sinovac vaccines sent to some hospitals in Metro Manila
Published March 1, 2021 1:18am
Updated March 1, 2021 9:08am
Some of the Sinovac vaccines received by the Philippines on Sunday have been delivered to various hospitals and medical centers in the metro, many of which will be holding symbolic first vaccinations on Monday morning.
The first legal shipment of vaccines to arrive in the country—600,000 doses of Sinovac's CoronaVac vaccine—landed at Villamor Airbase past 4 p.m. on a Chinese government plane. President Rodrigo Duterte and several members of his Cabinet, as well as Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian, were on hand to witness their offloading into trucks to bring them to a storage facility in Marikina.