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600,000 doses ordered by private firms arrive

Updated: 12:50 am Sept. 18, 2021

Over 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine procured by the private sector arrived on Friday.

VAX TRANSPORT. A forklift operator loads a container of doses of AstraZeneca vaccine into a delivery truck as a Department of Health personnel (right) guides him at the NAIA Terminal 1 in Pasay City on Friday (Sept. 17, 2021). A total of 661,200 private sector-procured Covid-19 vaccine doses arrived via Flight CI 701. (PNA photo by Jess M. Escaros Jr.)