DOH officer in charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the department secured last week a commitment from the COVAX facility to donate one million doses of the second-generation vaccines targeted against the Omicron variant.
The Department of Health is expecting the bivalent COVID-19 vaccines donated by the COVAX facility and other countries to arrive by the end of March.
She said that one country already confirmed that they will be donating bivalent vaccines to the Philippines, and the DOH is now finalizing the delivery date for such.
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