No more COVID-19 bivalent vaccine doses in Manila

MANILA, Philippines — Manila has run out of doses of the bivalent vaccine against COVID-19 that is used as booster shot.

The city government announced in an advisory “bivalent vaccine supply has been fully consumed according to Manila Health Department.”

It will resume giving bivalent jabs to qualified residents in Manila “once supply has been replenished by the Department of Health.”

The Manila Health Department recorded a total of 8,233 individuals who received the bivalent vaccines manufactured by Pfizer.

The bivalent vaccines, which makes a person immune to both the original and the Omicron variants of COVID-19, were available to health workers, senior citizens and persons with comorbidities residing in Manila.

The city government received the bivalent vaccines from the national government, which accepted 390,000 doses from the government of Lithuania.