Healthcare workers prioritized when gov't obtains COVID19 vaccine: ex-health chief
MANILA - Medical workers and other frontliners are prioritized when government obtains a COVID-19 vaccine, a former health Secretary said Sunday.
"Kung ang pamahalaaan ang gagastos, priority ay pinaka-exposed dun sa sakit, mauuna dyan ay healthcare workers at iba pang frontliners," she told ABS-CBN's TeleRadyo. But, according to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, the Philippines has a financing plan to purchase at least 40 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines once it becomes available to be administered for free to the poorest 20 million Filipinos.
But she said Filipinos should not expect that the country will be among the first to acquire COVID-19 vaccines if, for example, they become commercially available by December. "Ginagawa natin kung ano ang dapat gawin. Kailangan nating paigtingin, palawakin at bilisan ang ating ginagawa para hindi tayo ma-overwhelm ng kaso ng COVID-19," she said.
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