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. 

 

 
 
PRIORITY A
 
 
 
PRIORITY ELIGIBLE GROUPS
 
 
Eligible Population
(% of Population)
 
   
     PRIORITY 1:
     Frontline Health Workers
 
 
1,762,994 (1.6%)
 

 

        a) Public and private health facilities

     Hospitals, treatment and rehabilitation centers (TRCs),

     Temporary Treatment and Monitoring Facilities

     (TTMFs)

 

 612,975 (0.57%)

 

          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

 

 602,982 (0.56%)

 

          c) Barangay health workers including BHERTS

 

 414,640 (0.38%)

 

          d) Other NGAs (DSWD, DepEd, DILG, BJMP, and

          Bureau of Correction

 

  132,397 (0.12%)
 
     PRIORITY 2:
     Indigent senior citizens
 
 
3,789,874 (3.5%)
 
 
     PRIORITY 3:
     Remaining senior citizens
 
 
5,678,544 (5.3%)
 
 
     PRIORITY 4:
     Remaining indigent population
 
 
12,911,193 (12.0%)

 

     PRIORITY 5:
     Uniformed personnel 

 
 
525,523 (0.5%)
 

 

     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)

 

  
 
     TOTAL
 
 
24,668,128 (22.8%)
 
 
 
 
PRIORITY B
 

 

 

PRIORITY ELIGIBLE GROUPS

 

 

 

Eligible Population

 

 

% of Population

 
   
    Teachers, social
     workers
 
1,179,641
0.95%

 

          Public school teachers

 

 847,467 as of 2020  

 

        Private school teachers

 

 300,170 as of 2019  

 

          Health and social workers

 

 31,460  
 
     Other government
     workers       
 
1,728,641
as of 2019
1.66%
     
     Other essential
     workers
 
1,690,206
as of 2019
1.63%

     

          Outside health, education, 

          social welfare sector (e.g.

          agriculture, food industry,

          transportation, tourism)

 

    
 
     Socio-demographic
     groups at significantly
     higher risk other than
     SCs, IPs
 
     PDLs, PWDs, Filipinos living in
     high-density area
 
1,785,000
1.72%

 

        PWD

 

 1,570,000 as of 2010  

 

        PDL

 

 215,000 as of 2019  
     
     Overseas Filipino
     Workers (OFWs)
     and Seafarers
 
1,728,641
1.66%
 
     Other remaining
     workforce
 
1,298,729
1.25%
 
     TOTAL
  
10,557,951
10.15%


 

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