Over 186K health workers, 1.4M seniors on vaccine master list

As of February 16, over 186,562 healthcare workers have been included in the government’s vaccine master list for the COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire also reported that more than 1.4 million senior citizens, 3 million indigents, and 164,000 uniformed personnel are part of the Vaccine Information Management System.

Most healthcare workers in the list come from eligible hospitals set to receive the initial batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines arriving this month.