AS local government units start vaccinating senior citizens and people with comorbidities, the Department of Health (DoH) released an initial list of diseases that qualify those who have it to be given vaccine priority. These include chronic respiratory disease, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney diseases, cancer, diabetes, and obesity. But the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) will have to approve the list before it can be adopted. Senior citizens will be given the AstraZeneca AZD1222 vaccine, while comorbidities will be inoculated with the Coronavac vaccine from Sinovac Biotech Ltd. There are an estimated nine million senior citizens and around 14.1 million Filipinos with comorbidities who are eligible for vaccination.

Source: Manila Times March 29, 2021 16:23 UTC