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CHEAPER EVER AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine will cost just $ 5 for two shots. – AFP
Manila, Philippines – The Philippine government could sign an agreement with British Swedish multinational and biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca later this month for the supply of its COVID-19 vaccine once the UK government issues a health regulatory clearance, the Tsar said on Monday. of vaccines in the country.
In his report to President Rodrigo Duterte, Secretary Carlito Gálvez Jr. said that the government and AstraZeneca could sign an agreement on December 28 or 29 for 20 million and 10 million doses for local governments and the private sector, respectively.
This is once Britain’s Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency grants clearance for the vaccine, Galvez said.
AstraZeneca set its price at just $ 5, or plus or minus P500 for two injections of its COVID-19 vaccine.
The vaccine, known as AZD1222, was developed jointly with the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford and the Oxford Vaccine Group. Administered by intramuscular injection, the vaccine uses a modified chimpanzee adenovirus as a vector.
No cash advance
Gálvez said the government was also negotiating with the Serum Institute of India for the supply of another type of COVID-19 vaccine and that a meeting with the institute’s country representative was scheduled for Wednesday.
The Serum Institute, which promised to deliver 30 million doses, will comply with Republic Law No. 9184 or the Public Procurement Reform Law and will not ask for a cash advance, which gives the government more flexibility, according to Gálvez. In partnership with Novavax Inc. in the United States, the vaccines will be manufactured in India.
Novavax’s candidate vaccine, NVZ-CoV2373, is being developed with support from the Coalition for Innovations in Epidemic Preparedness and is currently in Phase 3 trials.
“So overall, if the transfer is approved, we will have 60 million [doses] for the second and third trimesters, ”said Gálvez.
The House Makabayan bloc is seeking an investigation into the government’s COVID-19 vaccination program following an “apparent conflict” within the Duterte administration over the acquisition of the vaccine.
“Even before the first doses of vaccines officially acquired by the government arrived, controversies had already plagued the acquisition process, with alleged problems of alleged conflicts of interest, corruption and lost profits,” said the Makabayan bloc when presenting the camera resolution.
In its resolution, the Makabayan bloc wanted the Ad-Hoc Defeat COVID-19 Committee to launch a formal investigation into the government’s mass vaccination program for COVID-19.
The group said that “due to the lack of rapid government action to track, test and isolate the first cases, the virus spread like wildfire and multiplied by one hundred in just a few weeks. INQ
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