The Philippines has started the inoculation of fully vaccinated healthcare workers with booster doses on Wednesday, November 17, 2021. A city health official said some 1,000 medical workers in Taguig City have already received their booster shots against COVID-19. The booster shots were administered to health workers at the Samsung Hall of SM Aura Vaccination Hub. Taguig City Head of Immunization, Dr. Jennifer Lou De Guzman said the medical workers who received the Pfizer booster shots were from the Taguig City Health Office and Taguig-Pateros District Hospital. The Department of Health has said the inoculation of senior citizens and immunocompromised individuals would follow.
According to De Guzman, other essential frontliners would also receive their booster shots in the coming days. In an interview with reporters, De Guzman said when we talk about essential workers and frontliners, these could also be not health-based, these also include those who help us in taking care of those COVID-19 patients. We have public safety officers who are not in the medical field but they assist us in our vaccination hubs. We will also vaccinate them with booster shots, she added. This does not mean that only the doctors, dentists, nurses, and midwives will be administered booster shots. She said Taguig City is eyeing to administer booster shots to more or less 20,000 health workers.
