MANILA, Philippines — It has been a year since the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) entered the country. With over 30,000 active cases and more than 12,000 deaths, hospitals and medical frontliners are still scrambling to manage the current health crisis as the nation waits for the arrival of the Covid-19 vaccines.
Although the healthcare workers have been included in the priority list for the government’s Covid-19 vaccination program, as they should be, the government’s anti-Covid-19 task force has decided to approve recommendations to inoculate frontliners with China’s Sinovac, which has raised several questions due to its effectivity.
Aside from the possibility of receiving…
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