Philippines: Duterte expects "good results" from vaccine rollout as country's Covid-19 total zoom past 540,000


A health care worker prepares a dose of the Moderna Inc Covid-19 vaccine at the Pacheco vaccination centre in Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. Moderna won approval from Singapore for its Covid vaccine and signed a deal to sell doses to the Philippines, becoming the fourth supplier to get regulatory clearance in South-East Asia. - Bloomberg

MANILA, Feb 9 (Xinhua): The Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines reported on Tuesday 1,235 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 540,227.

The death toll climbed to 11,296 after 65 more patients died from the viral disease, the DOH said.

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