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• Gov't to start inoculating essential workers, indigents 'after May'
• Speeding up the vaccine rollout
• Preventing wastage of vaccines

Gov't is expanding the vaccination priority group to the A4 and A5 clusters, vaccine czar says.

A4 group covers essential workers, frontliners in national government offices, and uniformed personnel, while A5 cluster includes the indigent sector. bit.ly/3v1JgM3

DOH Usec. Cabotaje on vaccinating A4 group: General direction is start by next week, but we're looking at the preparedness of mayors. We're focusing this on NCR Plus and some other provinces.

DOH Usec. Cabotaje on vaccinating A4 and A5 groups: General direction is start by next week, but we're looking at the preparedness of mayors. We're focusing this on NCR Plus and some other provinces.

Gov't is preparing the master list of next vaccine priority groups, DOH Usec. Cabotaje says

DOH Usec. Cabotaje on vaccinating A4 subgroups: We're simplifying the guidelines now to determine the best solution

DOH Usec. Cabotaje on requirements for vaccination: We'll make it as simple as possible. For example, basta empleyado ng ospital, kasama na siya.

DOH Usec. Cabotaje: We're expecting about 10M vaccine doses in June.

She says 10M is a steady monthly supply for June-August.

DOH Usec. Cabotaje on vaccinating A4 and A5 groups: We're vaccinating priority, high-risk areas first

All vaccines have only 6 months shelf life, DOH Usec. Cabotaje explains

DOH Usec. Cabotaje: Vaccines are 'stable' if used 6 months from manufacturing date

DOH Usec. Cabotaje: Target is to vaccine 100,000-200,000 per day once supply is steady