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Published February 19, 2021, 3:33 PM
Top officials of the National Task Force (NTF) Against Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) are planning to go to India to discuss the possible early delivery of Novavax vaccines to the Philippines, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said Friday, Feb. 19.
Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr., chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) on COVID-19
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This, as Galvez said that the separate deal the government has with the Covax facility–led by the World Health Organization (WHO)–for the delivery of the American-made Pfizer-BioNTech and British, Swedish-made AstraZeneca vaccines is still being negotiated.
“We are trying our best, maybe one of these days we might go to India where more or less two to three billion doses will be produced by the Serum Institute of India. It is where we bought a big bulk of Novavax vaccines,” Galvez said during a visit of the Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemi
nila sa Europe, he added.
[Translation: AstraZeneca has no more supplies. The 17 million was the last order. I asked them about batch three, but they didn t want to anymore because their supply for Europe is scarce.]
Despite this, Concepcion said Novavax was open, and urged that orders be placed while supply is still available. No deadline was given regarding the order period for Novavax.
Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez said the private sector, led by Razon, has pledged free shipping of the Moderna vaccines from the manufacturing facility in Spain.
Last year, ICTSI said it was in talks to buy doses of AstraZeneca, half of which will be given to the Department of Health and the rest to be administered on Razon Group employees as well as logistics frontliners, including workers at the Philippine Ports Authority and the Bureau of Customs.