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MANILA, September 4 (Reuters) – The Philippine Ministry of Health said Friday that it will meet with representatives of US pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc and the Russian embassy as the Southeast Asian country sought to download a COVID-19 vaccine.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte promised that the country, which has reported the highest number of coronavirus cases in the region, will “return to normal” until December, setting its hopes on affordable vaccines from countries like China and Russia.
Officials from the president and the ministries of fitness and foreign affairs would meet with Pfizer on Friday afternoon and then Russian officials later that day, said undersecretary of health, Maria Rosario Vergeire.
“This does not go to our negotiations with other countriesArray … It’s complementary,” Vergeire said at a regular press conference.
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Obtaining vaccines from suppliers would allow the Philippines to inoculate a larger portion of the population, Vergeire said.
It plans to acquire $40 million in doses for $400 million for 20 million people, or about one-fifth of its 107 million inhabitants.
The president’s spokesman said last month that the Philippines would launch trials for the Russian coronavirus vaccine in October, and Duterte is expected to be inoculated in May next year (report through Neil Jerome Morales; edited through Martin Petty).