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‘Include elderly and sick inmates in vaccine priority list’
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Elderly and sick persons who have been deprived of liberty (PDL) should be included in the government’s priority vaccination list.
This was the contention of a human rights group adding that these groups are also most at risk of contracting the novel coronavirus.
“We ask that they be placed in the A-2 and A-3 priority classifications, in the same way that seniors and those with co-morbidities, respectively, are placed in those categories,” said Fides Lim, spokesperson of Kapatid, a support group of families and friends of political prisoners.