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NOW: The Department of Health holds a press briefing with Usec. Rose Edillon of NEDA as guest.

Usec. Edillon shares the sectors included in the A4 priority group for vaccination. | @cgonzalesINQ

@cgonzalesINQ Will media workers be included in the A4 group?

Usec. Edillon: It will now be up to the IATF. As per the recovery cluster, ang tiningnan kasi namin are those who cannot work from home. Final say will come from the IATF. | @cgonzalesINQ

@cgonzalesINQ Health Usec. Maria Rosario Vergeire: Media workers are part of the B classification for vaccine priority. | @cgonzalesINQ

@cgonzalesINQ Usec. Edillon on when vaccination for A4 will start: Hindi pa ganun kadefinite ang supply. The best case scenario is we can start in May and it can actually slide to June. There is these first and second doses so it can be June, July, and August. | @cgonzalesINQ

@cgonzalesINQ Usec. Edillon on when vaccination for A4 will start: "Hindi pa ganun kadefinite ang supply. The best case scenario is we can start in May and it can actually slide to June. There is this first and second dose so it can be June, July, and August." | @cgonzalesINQ

@cgonzalesINQ Vergeire: Whatever brand you have started with [for the first dose], 'yan pa rin ang second dose niyo. | @cgonzalesINQ

@cgonzalesINQ Vergeire: Hopefully in 10 to 14 days we can see the decline in cases. | @cgonzalesINQ

@cgonzalesINQ Vergeire: Nakikita naman natin talaga based on our number of deaths, talagang tumataas ang numero ng mga namamatay [na COVID-19 patients]. | @cgonzalesINQ

@cgonzalesINQ Vergeire: We’re not so much looking into this herd immunity in NCR. Kahit magkaroon ka ng herd immunity sa NCR, very porous ang ating borders. Even NCR people can go in and out of other places. | @cgonzalesINQ

@cgonzalesINQ Vergeire: Hindi naman natin masasabi that it (two-week ECQ in NCR Plus) has gone to waste. Unang-una wala pa tayong sukat or indications kung ano ang nangyari due to ECQ. | @cgonzalesINQ

@cgonzalesINQ Vergeire says she disagrees with HPAAC's assessment that 2-week ECQ "seems to have been wasted." | @cgonzalesINQ

@cgonzalesINQ Vergeire: DOH discourages use of rapid antigen test kits at home. | @cgonzalesINQ