MANILA, Philippines — The country is missing its targets for vaccinating senior citizens and persons with comorbidity against COVID-19, an epidemiologist advising the government on the pandemic said Wednesday.
Dr. John Wong, a member of the IATF’s sub-technical working group on data analytics, said the country is doing “quite well” only for the vaccination of medical frontliners or those in the A1 group.
Data he presented in an online town hall forum showed that of the 1.5 million medical workers, 1.4 million or 90 percent have already been vaccinated. However, only 1.3 million or 14 percent of the 9.4 million target population for senior citizens, and only 1.1 million or eig…
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