The Philippine authorities will roll out booster shots to the Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
The OFWs scheduled for deployment will get the jabs with the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) approving the administration of booster shots.
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The government’s pandemic task force is however yet to give a definite date, but Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19, said it would be carried out “as soon as necessary”.
The OFWs scheduled for deployment abroad fall under the A1 category, along with health workers and their immediate family members.
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Authorities said that those who have been vaccinated less than six months ago (or less than three months for those who got a single-dose vaccine) are not qualified to receive the booster shot yet.
Earlier the government started giving booster shots to healthcare workers on November 17 and the approved jabs are single doses of Pfizer, Sinovac, and AstraZeneca, and half the regular dose of a Moderna shot. (AW)
