Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said the government may sign next week a deal with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca for 20 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine.

“May maganda po tayong balita dahil baka po may matapos po tayo na mga kontrata this December (We have good news because we might be able to finalize contracts this December),” Galvez told President Rodrigo Duterte in a televised meeting of members of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases on Monday night.

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