MANILA, Philippines — A lawmaker is urging the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) to prioritize teachers in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination program.
Under House Joint Resolution No. 35, Marikina Rep. Stella Luz Quimbo underscored the “urgent need” to vaccinate teachers “in order to facilitate the transition of the education sector into face-to-face or in-person classroom learning and to ensure the safe and sustainable continuity of education amidst and after the COVID-19 pandemic.”
According to the lawmaker, teachers, along with social workers, have been assigned to the B1 group in the vaccine program’s current order o…
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