MANILA, Philippines — House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco urged the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) on Monday to prioritize urban centers with high concentration of COVID-19 cases in the vaccine rollout, but only after all medical frontliners in the country are fully inoculated against the dreaded disease.
“As we await large supplies of vaccines to come in, we urge the IATF to prioritize NCR (National Capital Region) Plus and other urban centers in our vaccine rollout so we can quell the surge in new infections in those areas,” Velasco said in a statement.
“But first and foremost, let us vaccinate all 1.7 million health care w…
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