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The first delivery of Janssen to the Philippines was on 20th July 2021. This was a delivery of about 3.2 million doses, which arrived on 16 and 17 of July 2021. These batches were 212C21A (67 deaths), 213C21A (116 deaths), 209C21A (11 deaths), and 205C21A (7 Philippines deaths). The first 3 batches were exclusive to the Philippines. Batch 205C21A was also apparently delivered to LAOS as 6 of the 13 deaths reported following injection of this batch were there.

Janssen products were administered to Filipinos from 20 July 2021 up to about 15 August 2021. Then, there was no more dosing until the end of December 2021, when new batches (apparently donated from Europe) arrived. Additional deaths occurred with the rollout of the second delivery.

Total Janssen products reported to have been administered in the Philippines are 7,654,344 (Check page 5. https://www.fda.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Reports-of-suspected-adverse-reaction-to-COVID-19-vaccines-as-of-31-December-2023.pdf).

We don't know the batch sizes, so we cannot know the relative toxicity of the individual batches.

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