Reporters are (still) not frontliners?

I find it perplexing that the government can’t even spare about 2500 doses or less of vaccines for reporters. They have been in the forefront covering and reporting stories on the pandemic since Day One. They have been with ministers like your goodself, with health, police and military personnel, with patients, family of the infected and those who succumbed to the pandemic.

The saddest part of the entire exercise is that you and the government can’t even recognise them as “frontliners”.