Majority of the essential workers from Marikina City may have to wait at least until June 14 before they get their first COVID-19 vaccine shot, Mayor Marcy Teodoro says.
Vaccination of economic frontliners to start on June 7
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 6) – The vaccination of persons in the A4 vaccine priority group, or the economic frontliners, will start on June 7, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said on Sunday.
A symbolic vaccination ceremony will be held at the Mall of Asia in Pasay City to mark the start of the inoculation of the country’s essential workers.
Duque said first to be vaccinated would be workers living in densely-populated areas and places experiencing a spike in COVID-19 infections.
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To show the magnitude of disproportion in access to the first COVID-19 vaccines being deployed at the start of 2021, a stark contrast was portrayed.
“More than 39 million doses of vaccine have now been administered in at least 49 higher-income countries. Just 25 doses have been given in one lowest-income country. Not 25 million; not 25 thousand; just 25,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus lamented.
“I need to be blunt: the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure – and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries,” Ghebreyesus warned in his Jan. 18 remarks at the 148th session of the WHO executive board.
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Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Friday urged the government to mobilize the use of reservists of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to intensify efforts to control the spread of COVID-19.
“Ang totoo niyan ay kulang na kulang po tayo sa human resources (The truth is that we lack human resources). And, in order, to accelerate further our daily vaccination rate, I urged the National Task Force Against COVID-19 (NTF) to also tap our military reservists,” Go said.
Go, chairman of the Senate health and demography committee, expressed his concern that there are challenges in deliveries and rollout of the vaccines due to human resource deficit, making it harder to reach herd immunity soon for the whole nation.
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