“Filipino citizens above 70 years old are not in the priority list for COVID-19 vaccination.”
What Vera Files found
Filipino citizens aged 60 and above are second in the 12-tier priority groups for COVID-19 vaccination of the government, next to the estimated 1.7 million frontline healthcare workers, the health department's list of priorities showed.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 12 April 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 23 April 2021, 11 days later. Its rating was “Needs Context”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/lYbSW1mK8zs?t=1483
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