The Philippines is set to begin public inoculations against Covid-19 with the arrival on Feb. 28 of the first 600,000 doses of vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac, to be followed by an additional 525,600 doses from British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca in the following week.
Here's the list of priority groups for the vaccines, based on a presentation made by National Task Force (NTF) for Covid-19 Response spokesperson Restituto Padilla on Feb. 25.
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PRIORITY A
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PRIORITY ELIGIBLE GROUPS |
Eligible Population (% of Population) |
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PRIORITY 1:Frontline Health Workers |
1,762,994 (1.6%) |
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a) Public and private health facilities Hospitals, treatment and rehabilitation centers (TRCs), Temporary Treatment and Monitoring Facilities (TTMFs)
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612,975 (0.57%) | ||
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b) Public health workers All Rural Health Units (RHU) and City Health Offices (CHO) personnel; PHO, PDOHO, CHD and CO field workers; and LGU contact tracers
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602,982 (0.56%) | ||
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c) Barangay health workers including BHERTS
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414,640 (0.38%) | ||
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d) Other NGAs (DSWD, DepEd, DILG, BJMP, and Bureau of Correction
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132,397 (0.12%) | ||
PRIORITY 2:Indigent senior citizens |
3,789,874 (3.5%) |
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PRIORITY 3:Remaining senior citizens |
5,678,544 (5.3%) |
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PRIORITY 4:Remaining indigent population |
12,911,193 (12.0%)
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PRIORITY 5:Uniformed personnel
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525,523 (0.5%) |
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Philippine National Police (PNP), Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), Citizen Armed Force Geographic Unit (CAFGU)
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TOTAL |
24,668,128 (22.8%) |
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PRIORITY B |
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PRIORITY ELIGIBLE GROUPS
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Eligible Population
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% of Population
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Teachers, socialworkers |
1,179,641 |
0.95% |
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Public school teachers
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847,467 as of 2020 | |
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Private school teachers
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300,170 as of 2019 | |
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Health and social workers
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31,460 | |
Other governmentworkers |
1,728,641as of 2019 |
1.66% |
Other essentialworkers |
1,690,206as of 2019 |
1.63% |
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Outside health, education, social welfare sector (e.g. agriculture, food industry, transportation, tourism)
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Socio-demographicgroups at significantlyhigher risk other thanSCs, IPsPDLs, PWDs, Filipinos living inhigh-density area |
1,785,000 |
1.72% |
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PWD
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1,570,000 as of 2010 | |
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PDL
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215,000 as of 2019 | |
Overseas FilipinoWorkers (OFWs)and Seafarers |
1,728,641 |
1.66% |
Other remainingworkforce |
1,298,729 |
1.25% |
TOTAL |
10,557,951 |
10.15% |
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