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Manila: Beijing's top diplomat pledged Saturday to donate half a million coronavirus vaccine shots to the Philippines, Manila officials said. President Rodrigo Duterte's administration is scrambling to lock in supplies of COVID-19 vaccines for the country's 110 million people, after being criticised for being too slow off the mark in the global race to procure the drugs. Among other deals, the Philippines has already agreed to buy 25 million doses of Chinese company Sinovac's Coronavac. It is not clear which vaccine China will donate, and whether the donation is part of that earlier deal; the Chinese embassy in Manila did...
