Manila Bulletin
Speaker seeks NCR Plus priority for vaccine rollout
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco urged the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) to prioritize the National Capital Region (NCR) Plus and other urban centers for COVID-19 vaccine allocation.
He emphasized that this prioritization should only happen after all 1.7 million medical front-liners nationwide have been fully vaccinated.
Velasco highlighted the need to curb the surge of COVID-19 cases in these densely populated areas.
He believes concentrating inoculation efforts on areas where health systems are most vulnerable is the most effective defense against the spread of 'superspreader variants'.
This call comes as the World Health Organization disclosed that as of the third week of April, only 63 percent of Philippine medical frontliners had received their jabs, with at least 37 percent not yet assured of COVID-19 protection.
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