The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Emerging Infectious Diseases has approved the list of sectors included in the A4 priority group of the government’s Covid-19 vaccination program.
Sectors under A4 will be inoculated after health workers (A1), senior citizens (A2) and persons with co-morbidities (A3).
According to Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, sectors under A4 were classified essential “because their work cannot stop.”
Below is the list of groups under A4:
- Commuter transport (land, air and sea), including logistics
- Public and private wet and dry market vendors
- Frontline workers in groceries, supermarkets, delivery services
- Workers in manufacturing for food, beverage, medical and pharmaceutical products
- Frontline workers in food retail, including food service delivery
- Frontline workers in private and government financial services
- Frontline workers in hotels and accommodation establishments
- Priests, rabbis, imams, and other religious leaders
- Security guards/ personnel assigned in offices, agencies, and organizations identified in the list of priority industries/sectors
- Frontline workers in private and government news media
- Customer-facing personnel of telecoms, cable and internet service providers, electricity distribution and water distribution utilities
- Frontline personnel in basic education and higher education institutions and agencies
- Overseas Filipino workers, including those scheduled for deployment within two months
- Frontline workers in law/justice, security, and social protection sectors
- Frontline government workers engaged in the operations of government transport system, quarantine inspection
- Worker safety inspection and other COVID-19 response activities
- Frontline government workers in charge of tax collection, assessment of businesses for incentives, election, national ID, data collection personnel
- Diplomatic community and Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) personnel in consular operations
- Department of Public Works and Highways personnel in charge of monitoring government infrastructure projects
The country has so far received 3.025 million Covid-19 vaccine doses.
The government’s inoculation program has rolled out 1,255,716 doses of Covid-19 vaccines as of April 15.
So far, the country has been using only vaccines from China’s Sinovac and British firm AstraZeneca. John Ezekiel J. Hirro