Boxes of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine are seen at the McKesson Corp. amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Shepherdsville, US, March 1, 2021. (File photo from REUTERS)
MANILA, Philippines 鈥� The Philippines received on Monday over 1.5 million doses of Janssen鈥檚聽 COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Dutch government.
The National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 said that the 1,526,400 doses arrived on Qatar Airways flight QR928 which landed at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport at 10 p.m.
This is the first batch of the Netherlands鈥� donation of the single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, the NTF COVID-19 said.
The succeeding batches are scheduled to arrive on December 14 and 15 to complete the donation of 7,538,400 doses.
Based on the NTF COVID-19鈥檚 data, some 41 million individuals are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of December 12.