MANILA, Philippines — The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) has asked the National Task Force Against COVID-19 (NTF) and the Inter-Agency Task Force against Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF- EID) to include lawyers in the A4 group of the government’s vaccination priority list.
IBP through its national president Domingo Egon Cayosa said in a letter dated March 30 that lawyers are working as frontline personnel since the start of the pandemic by “proactively supporting COVID-19 patients, health workers, and frontliners,” as well as through collaboration with government agencies and local government units in “educating the public about laws and ordinances pertaining to the pand…
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