Pasig orders 400,000 doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine

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<div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img src='http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/reuters/01/11/vial.jpg' ><figcaption>A health-care worker holds a vial of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine at the Pentland Medical Practice in Currie, Scotland, Britain, Jan. 7, 2021.<em> Russell Cheyne/Pool/Reuters/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA <strong>(UPDATE)</strong> - Pasig City has ordered 400,000 coronavirus vaccine doses developed by British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, Mayor Vico Sotto said Monday.</p><p>Sotto said the city government on Sunday signed a tripartite agreement with the national government and AstraZeneca for the advance purchase of COVID-19 vaccine worth P100 million.</p><p>"Actual quantity and date of delivery will depend on several factors," <a href='https://twitter.com/VicoSotto/status/1348403163158638592'>he wrote on Twitter</a>. "We'll buy from others too as opportunities arise."</p><p>The city government has earmarked P300 million to procure vaccines against the virus, which has infected some 9,915 people in Pasig City as of Jan. 8.</p><p>The city's coronavirus tally includes 9,336 recoveries, 394 fatalities and 185 active cases.</p><ul class='op-related-articles'>	<li><a href='https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/04/21/pasig-allots-p300-million-for-covid-19-vaccine-vico-sotto'>Pasig allots P300 million for COVID-19 vaccines: Vico Sotto</a></li></ul><figure class='op-interactive'><iframe height='315' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/TMq7e_Q4Lfo?enablejsapi=1' width='560'></iframe></figure><div class='iwantbar'>Watch more in <a href='//www.iwantv.com.ph/'>iWantv</a> or <a href='//tfc.tv/'>TFC.tv</a></div><p>Sotto said the AstraZeneca vaccine was "relatively cheaper" at $5 per dose or P240 and could be stored and transported at normal refrigerated conditions.</p><p>"Slightly lower efficacy than others, but still very acceptable at 70 percent. Possibly 90 percent with adjusted dose," he said.</p><p>Some 200,000 Pasigueños are set to receive the vaccine jabs for free, with priority given to healthcare workers, older people and persons with disability (PWDs).</p><p>Sotto also appealed to the public to trust the vaccine's safety and efficacy as some were hesitant in getting inoculated.</p><p>"'Pag sinabi nila na safe, 'pag sinabi nila na ligtas [at] mabisa ang isang bakuna, dapat maniwala po tayo. Magtiwala po tayo sa kanila. Magtiwala po tayo sa siyensiya," he said during Pasig City Hall's flag-raising ceremony.</p><p>(If they say that the vaccine is safe and effective, we should trust them. We should trust science.)</p><p>Britain was the first country to approve the vaccine for emergency use.</p><p>The vaccine, also developed by Oxford University, is a "viral vector vaccine," where a specially engineered virus that normally causes chimpanzees to get the common cold delivers genetic instructions to human cells to make the spike protein jutting out from the new coronavirus's surface.</p><p>The AstraZeneca shot doesn't require deep freezing at minus 70 degrees like the mRNA vaccine from Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech.</p><p>It can be kept in a standard refrigerator for 6 months and also cheaper to make.</p><ul class='op-related-articles'>	<li><a href='https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/12/30/20/astrazenecaoxford-covid-19-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-uk'>Britain first to approve AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine</a></li></ul><p><strong>$1 = P48.0530</strong></p><p><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></p><figure class='op-interactive'><iframe height='315' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/9UM37lWno4s?enablejsapi=1' width='560'></iframe></figure><div class='iwantbar'>Watch more in <a href='//www.iwantv.com.ph/'>iWantv</a> or <a href='//tfc.tv/'>TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>The city government has earmarked P300 million to procure vaccines against the virus, which has infected some 9,915 people in Pasig City as of Jan. 8.</p><p>The city's coronavirus tally includes 9,336 recoveries, 394 fatalities and 185 active cases.</p><ul class='op-related-articles'>	<li><a href='https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/04/21/pasig-allots-p300-million-for-covid-19-vaccine-vico-sotto'>Pasig allots P300 million for COVID-19 vaccines: Vico Sotto</a></li></ul><figure class='op-interactive'><iframe height='315' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/TMq7e_Q4Lfo?enablejsapi=1' width='560'></iframe></figure><div class='iwantbar'>Watch more in <a href='//www.iwantv.com.ph/'>iWantv</a> or <a href='//tfc.tv/'>TFC.tv</a></div><p>Sotto said the AstraZeneca vaccine was "relatively cheaper" at $5 per dose or P240 and could be stored and transported at normal refrigerated conditions.</p><p>"Slightly lower efficacy than others, but still very acceptable at 70 percent. Possibly 90 percent with adjusted dose," he said.</p><p>Some 200,000 Pasigueños are set to receive the vaccine jabs for free, with priority given to healthcare workers, older people and persons with disability (PWDs).</p><p>Sotto also appealed to the public to trust the vaccine's safety and efficacy as some were hesitant in getting inoculated.</p><p>"'Pag sinabi nila na safe, 'pag sinabi nila na ligtas [at] mabisa ang isang bakuna, dapat maniwala po tayo. Magtiwala po tayo sa kanila. Magtiwala po tayo sa siyensiya," he said during Pasig City Hall's flag-raising ceremony.</p><p>(If they say that the vaccine is safe and effective, we should trust them. We should trust science.)</p><p>Britain was the first country to approve the vaccine for emergency use.</p><p>The vaccine, also developed by Oxford University, is a "viral vector vaccine," where a specially engineered virus that normally causes chimpanzees to get the common cold delivers genetic instructions to human cells to make the spike protein jutting out from the new coronavirus's surface.</p><p>The AstraZeneca shot doesn't require deep freezing at minus 70 degrees like the mRNA vaccine from Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech.</p><p>It can be kept in a standard refrigerator for 6 months and also cheaper to make.</p><ul class='op-related-articles'>	<li><a href='https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/12/30/20/astrazenecaoxford-covid-19-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-uk'>Britain first to approve AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine</a></li></ul><p><strong>$1 = P48.0530</strong></p><p><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></p><figure class='op-interactive'><iframe height='315' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/9UM37lWno4s?enablejsapi=1' width='560'></iframe></figure><div class='iwantbar'>Watch more in <a href='//www.iwantv.com.ph/'>iWantv</a> or <a href='//tfc.tv/'>TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>Sotto said the city government on Sunday signed a tripartite agreement with the national government and AstraZeneca for the advance purchase of COVID-19 vaccine worth P100 million.</p><p>"Actual quantity and date of delivery will depend on several factors," <a href='https://twitter.com/VicoSotto/status/1348403163158638592'>he wrote on Twitter</a>. "We'll buy from others too as opportunities arise."</p>

<div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img src='http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/reuters/01/11/vial.jpg' ><figcaption>A health-care worker holds a vial of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine at the Pentland Medical Practice in Currie, Scotland, Britain, Jan. 7, 2021.<em> Russell Cheyne/Pool/Reuters/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA <strong>(UPDATE)</strong> - Pasig City has ordered 400,000 coronavirus vaccine doses developed by British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, Mayor Vico Sotto said Monday.</p>

<p>MANILA - Pasig City has ordered 400,000 coronavirus vaccine doses developed by British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, Mayor Vico Sotto said Monday.</p>

MANILA - Pasig City has ordered 400,000 coronavirus vaccine doses developed by British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, Mayor Vico Sotto said Monday.

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Pasig orders 400,000 doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine

Pasig orders 400,000 doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine