Heed the protocol

The government has consistently failed to set the priorities right amid a public health emergency.

As of Saturday, which was the extended deadline for the 10-day nationwide campaign to inoculate frontline workers, only 184,875 people had taken the first of two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, according to the Ministry of Health and Population. That’s 245,125 doses short of the ministry’s immunisation plan to vaccinate 430,000 health workers, support staff at health facilities, female community health volunteers, security personnel involved in handling the bodies of Covid-19 fatalities, sanitation workers and elderly people living in care homes.