MAHIHIRAP PRAYORIDAD NG GOBYERNO SA BAKUNA (Ikinatuwa ng CBCP)

PINURI ng Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) – Episcopal Commission for Bioethics ang gobyerno upang bigyang prayoridad sa national coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program.

“We especially commend our national government for considering the poor in our national vaccination program. The poor are beloved of the Lord. They should be specially protected because their poverty makes them vulnerable to infection and severe disease,” saad ni Tuguegarao Archbishop Ricardo Baccay, chairman of the Commission, sa isang pastoral statement ngayong araw.

Hinikayat din ni Baccay ang publiko na magpabakuna.

“The Covid-19 vaccines will only be able to end the pandemic in our country if enough Filipinos are vaccinated so we urge all of our people to be immunized when the vaccines arrive in the Philippines,” sambit niya. Nagpahayag ng suporta ang opisyal ng CBCP para sa mga hakbangin sa pagkuha ng bakuna ng gobyerno.

“We, therefore, support the efforts of our national government to procure and to deploy these vaccines in our country, and we thank the private organizations who have come forward to help acquire them,”  aniya.

Samantala, sinabi rin niya na malaya ang mga tao na magdesisyon kung sila’y magpapabakuna o hindi.

“We, therefore, recognize that each individual person should be left free to decide to choose to be vaccinated or not according to his or her conscience with full awareness of the obligation to protect oneself from being an instrument of contagion and the further spread of the virus,”  dagdag niya.

Noong Miyerkules, sinabi ng Department of Health na ang mahihirap na sektor ng populasyon ang siyang bibigyan ng prayoridad upang maiwasan ang pagkalat ng COVID-19 sa kabila ng limitadong supply ng mga bakuna sa buong mundo.


Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said 60 to 70 percent of the population must be immunized or vaccinated for the population to achieve herd immunity against the disease. 

Noong Miyerkules, sinabi ng Kagawaran ng Kalusugan na ang mga mahina na sektor ng populasyon ay bibigyan ng priyoridad upang maiwasan ang pagkalat ng Covid-19 bibigyan ang limitadong supply ng mga bakuna sa buong mundo.

Ayon kay Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire na 60 hanggang 70 porsiyento ng populasyon ang dapat mabakunahan.