DOH to issue guidelines on COVID-19 vaccination of health workers' kin

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The Department of Health is set to release guidelines for the COVID-19 vaccination of health workers' family members, an official said, stressing that immediate kin may be the priority for now.

[We need to release guidelines so we can have basis]," Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said during government's Laging Handa briefing.[We might need to prioritize the nuclear families, because we know] that this will all depend on the number of doses that we have right now," she added.

Meanwhile, Vergeire noted that the DOH would still need to get data from the Labor Department on the exact number of outbound OFWs before inoculation on the group can start.When asked about a proposal to establish a vaccine pass system for fully-inoculated senior citizens, Vergeire stressed the move still needs to be studied as well.Kailangan din balangkisin nang maigi dahil...

 

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