MANILA, Philippines — The government’s pandemic task force is not encouraging walk-ins at COVID-19 vaccination sites. Instead, it’s pushing local governments to implement substitution lists, according to Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, co-chair of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF).
The IATF, the COVID-19 policy-making body, was “tentative” on its stand on walk-ins in vaccinations since it could “invite a crowd” at vaccination sites lead to superspreader events, Nograles in an interview over One News’ “The Chiefs” on Tuesday night.
Local governments are instead told to prepare a substitution list in case recipients of the v…
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