SunStar WHO warns against deviating from prioritization framework MANILA. Dr. Gerardo Legaspi, director of the UP Philippine General Hospital, is the first to receive the Sinovac vaccine on March 1, 2021. (File) + March 04, 2021 FAILURE to follow the prioritization framework in the implementation of the vaccination program against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) could put vaccine shipments from the Covax facility at risk, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Under prioritization roadmap of the WHO, the first to receive the vaccines should be the healthcare workers, elderly and people with comorbidities. “If we want to ensure that we continue to access the vaccines from the Covax facility, we need to demonstrate that we can follow this prioritization,” WHO country representative Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe said in a virtual briefing.