Philippines' Priority List For Covid-19 Vaccine: Is This For Real?
By Shavkat
@Shavkat (141905)
Philippines
December 29, 2020 7:27pm CST
You read it right. In the Philippines, people-in-charge identified the priority list who will have the vaccines based on their expertise. I am not going to say further since it was being released recently.
First Priority: Frontline health workers in public and private health facilities, temporary treatment and monitoring facilities, regional health offices, field workers, contract tracers, and barangay health stations that include emergency response teams ( 1.76 million or about 1.6% of the population).
Second Priority: Indigent senior citizens (3.78 million or 3.5% of the population).
Third Priority: Remaining senior citizens (5.67 million or 5.3% of the population).
Fourth Priority: Remaining indigent population (12.9 million or 12% of the population).
Fifth Priority: Uniformed personnel (525,523 or .5% of the population).
The government will prioritize these five groups that will cover 24.66 million Filipinos (22.8% of the population).
Do you have this priority list in your country?
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11 responses
@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
30 Dec 20
@Janet357 That's the big question. Actually, the priority list was not followed. Recently, there is a piece of news that some of the uniformed personnel were vaccinated without knowing who approved it. The issue is that these vaccines were being smuggled or not.
@rsa101 (41003)
• Philippines
1 Jan 21
I think that is what should be followed but the government had made to secretly vaccinate a few military personnel and they illegally smuggled them out from China. They even didn’t follow the priority that medical frontlines should be the first to receive it.
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@Raine38 (12387)
• United States
30 Dec 20
We do have a list, and it looks pretty much the same. I am fine with it, the vaccine itself will not 100% prevent the virus anyway as we still have to wear masks, practice social distancing and good hygiene, which I am still doing and will continue doing. I have been doing good and has managed to prevent getting infected with these practices, I am okay not getting the vaccine immediately or even not at all.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
31 Dec 20
Yes there is a priority list here as well not sure of the order but I do know health care workers first
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@wolfgirl569 (135910)
• Marion, Ohio
30 Dec 20
Ours is similar. Healthcare workers should be first everywhere.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
8 Jan 21
Ah yes, much similar here, -- only - who are your "uniformed personnel"?
@Butterfingers (66603)
• India
30 Dec 20
I haven't seen such list but of course they will prioritize the health workers and front liners
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