PRISONERS or persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) will be next on the government’s priority list of individuals to be inoculated with Covid jabs, according to the Department of Justice (DoJ).

Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra made the assurance on Friday after inmates were left off the final list of subcategories under vaccine priority A4 released by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID).

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