The first shipment of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine is expected to arrive on February 20 and mass inoculation could start within days, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., the country’s vaccine czar, said on Monday.

Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. Screengrab from Senate Committee of the Whole hearing on the government’s COVID-19 vaccination program Live Streaming.

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