BusinessWorld May 9, 2021 | 6:20 pm AN APPEAL was made for Filipino athletes, especially those seeing action in international competitions like the Olympics, to be included as essential workers in the government’s priority list to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. — 2019 SEA GAMES WEBSITE SENATOR Francis Tolentino on Sunday made an appeal to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to have Filipino athletes, especially those seeing action in international competitions like the Olympics, included as essential workers in the government’s priority list to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The senator made the remarks as both amateur and professional athletes remain excluded in the “A4 Priority” of the government in its ongoing nationwide vaccine rollout.