MANILA (REUTERS) – The Philippine government has signed a supply agreement for 40 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the head of the government’s Covid-19 vaccine procurement said on Sunday (June 20).

Deliveries of the vaccine, among several brands of coronavirus shots allowed for emergency use in the South-east Asian country, will begin “after eight weeks starting August”, Mr Carlito Galvez said in a statement.…

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