According to Philippine media, on January 10th local time, Philippine Health Minister Du Kai said that the Philippines has signed a vaccine procurement agreement with China Kexing Company, and will purchase 25 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Kexing.
It is expected that the first batch of vaccines will arrive in the Philippines in February.
Dukay said that the first 50,000 doses will arrive in the Philippines in February, and another 950,000 doses will arrive in March.
In the following months, between 2 and 3 million doses of vaccines will arrive in the Philippines every month, until the procurement agreement for 25 million doses is completed in December.
In addition, Duquet said that although the Philippines had earlier reached a vaccine procurement agreement with AstraZeneca, it would not be able to meet the Philippines’s demand for vaccines without the addition of other products such as Kochen.
Earlier, Galvez, head of the Philippine Coronavirus Policy and Coronavirus Vaccine Program, said that the Philippine government aims to vaccinate about 50 to 70 million Filipinos against the novel coronavirus by 2021.
It is reported that the Philippine government has raised a budget of 73.2 billion pesos about 9.86 billion yuan $1.2B for vaccine purchase, of which 40 billion pesos come from multilateral institutions, 20 billion pesos from the Philippines, and 13.2 billion pesos from bilateral agreements.
