Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian are seen walking away from a Chinese military aircraft carrying the first batch of Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac, the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines to arrive in the country, at Villamor Air Base, Pasay, Metro Manila on Monday (Feb 28, 2021). - Reuters
MANILA, Feb 28 (AP): The Philippines received its first batch of Covid-19 vaccine Sunday, among the last in South-East Asia to secure the critical doses despite having the second-highest number of coronavirus infections and deaths in the hard-hit region.
A Chinese military transport aircraft carrying 600,000 doses of vaccine donated by China arrived in an air base in the capital in a late-afternoon event beamed live on state-run TV.
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