Galvez and Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Monday welcomed another 1 million Sinovac and 249,600 US-made Moderna vaccines shipped on Sunday night. On May 27, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) included health workers’ families in the priority group to allay hospital workers’ fears of exposing other members of their households to the virus. “But our focus in the meantime are [families of health workers] under A1.1, A1.2 and A1.3 because of limited [vaccine] supply. Some [local governments] have started [vaccinating kin] but they [do] it based on their supply,” Cabotaje said, referring to health workers assigned to COVID referral hospitals, public and private facilities providing COVID care and quarantines. Of the 10 million jabs administered in the country, Roque said 7.54 million were first doses and 2.53 million second shots.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 28, 2021 21:00 UTC