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In his first meeting with all trial court judges and court personnel on Tuesday, April 13, Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo assured that the Supreme Court (SC) will look into and address all their concerns on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
April 09, 2021 A UNIVERSITY of the Philippines (UP) engineer and a De La Salle University (DLSU) researcher have invented a coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine queue calculator to help Filipinos “see if the national vaccination plan is being followed.”
“As the Philippines begins its Covid-19 vaccinations. a question still lingers in millions of minds like mine – How far in the queue am I? I tried searching for an answer but ended up building a tool that calculates it instead,” said Kenneth Alambra, a civil engineer from the UP-Los Baños.
“Since there are around 110 million people in the Philippines, not everybody can get vaccinated immediately. It raises a whole load of new questions: Who will be first in the queue to get the vaccine? When are you likely to be offered it? How far are we away from the finish line?” he asked.
Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)
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This was the plea aired by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) in a letter to the chairman of the National Task Force against COVID-19 (NTF) and Defense Secretary Delfin N. Lorenzana.
In his letter last March 30, IBP President Domingo Egon Q. Cayosa requested Lorenzana that “lawyers be included in the priority population group A4 (frontline personnel in essential public and private sectors that are directly client facing and cannot dutifully meet minimum public health standards) of the Philippine National Deployment and Vaccination Plan for COVID-19 Vaccines.”
Cayosa said that courts and tribunals where lawyers and their clients frequent “have been proven spreaders of the COVID-19 virus.”
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In a letter to all judiciary personnel dated April 5, Acting Chief Justice Estela M. Perlas Bernabe said the Supreme Court’s (SC) request for inclusion in the priority group of the Philippine National Deployment and Vaccination Plan, has been granted by the National Task Force Against COVID-19 (NTF).
With the inclusion, Bernabe said “the NTF has communicated that vaccines arriving this April 2021 shall be partly allotted for the Judiciary.”
Bernabe said the SC sent a letter-request to NTF last March 31. She said the SC underscored that “justices, judges, and court personnel of the Philippine Judiciary (comprised of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Court of Tax Appeals, Sandiganbayan, and trial courts) are frontline government workers in the justice sector, whose functions are essential at all times, especially during the pandemic.”