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Over 1 million Pfizer vaccine procured by the governement arrived on Wednesday

  Over 1 million doses of procured Pfizer vaccines arrived in the country on Wednesday, September 22,  the biggest single delivery of procured Pfizer vaccines delivered so far.  The Air Hongkong plane carrying  1,028,430 Pfizer doses landed past 9 p.m. at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3. Of this shipment, 128,700 shots were delivered to Cebu City today at around 6:35 p.m., while 87,750 doses will be shipped to Davao City via Flight on Thursday morning, September 23. The remaining 811,980 doses will be transported to the vaccine storage firm Pharmaserv Express in Marikina City. Dr. Teodoro Herbosa, National Task Force Against (NTF) COVID-19 special adviser, said this latest Pfizer shipment will be deployed to local government units that have the capacity to store the vaccines using ultra-low storage freezers. “It (Pfizer vaccines) will still go mostly outside Metro Manila, that means region 4, region 4-A, region 7, and region 11 in Davao,” Herbosa said. He said that al