The country received 8,247,200 doses of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Tuesday, Dec. 14, the biggest such delivery in a single-day since it started accepting supplies of the life-saving jabs in February of this year.
Most of the vaccines came from the donations of different European countries
FOR THE PHILIPPINES.A staff of the Department of Health plants the Philippine flag near the boxes containing the Janssen Covid-19 vaccine at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 in Pasay City on Tuesday (Dec. 14, 2021). This latest shipment of 1,778,400 doses of the single-shot vaccine was donated by the governments of Austria and Sweden.(PNA photo by Robert Oswald P. Alfiler) MANILA - More vaccine donations from European countries have continued to pour into the country, with the latest shipment of 3,789,600 doses of the Janssen vaccine from Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands arriving on Tuesday. In an interview at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Swedish Ambassador to the Philippines Annika Thanborg said it was a pleasure for her to personally witness the arrival of the vaccines, about 1,512,000 doses, donated by her country through the COVAX Facility. "We will also donate at least six million non-earmarked vaccine doses in 2021, 1.5 million of these doses