To speed up the vaccination of essential workers in Makati, the city government has opened a new site at the Glorietta 5 Mall on Thursday to vaccinate up to 500 individuals who have pre-registered online under the A4 category.
Makati Mayor Abigail Binay said that another dedicated vaccination site will be opened at the San Lorenzo Place Mall on Friday following the latest partnerships made by the city government to speed up the progress of its free Covid-19 vaccination program.
“We have made these strategic partnerships with the private sector to accommodate the expected influx of vaccine registrants from the A4 category. We laud the Ayala Corporation and Megaworld Corporation for readily sharing their resources as we begin another critical phase in the Bakuna Makati mass vaccination program,” Binay said.
The vaccination site in San Lorenzo Place located at the corner of Chino Roces Avenue and Edsa, meanwhile, aims to serve up to 400 individuals in the A4 group daily.
“We need to ensure fast yet safe vaccination against Covid-19 for our economic frontliners so that businesses in the city can continue to recover and thrive, thus fueling faster economic recovery,” the mayor said.
As classified by Department of Health (DOH), the A4 category is subdivided as follows: A4.1—Private sector workers who work outside their homes and overseas Filipino workers scheduled for deployment within four months; A4.2—Employees in government agencies and instrumentalities, including government-owned or -controlled corporations (GOCCs) and local government units; and A4.3 Informal sector workers and self-employed who work outside their homes and those working in private households.
Binay said the Makati Coliseum, Vax OTG at Circuit Makati grounds, and various vaccination sites in public schools and villages of the city will continue to cater to the A1 to A3 groups in the DOH priority list.
A total of P1 billion was allocated this year for the purchase of vaccines under the Bakuna Makati program, which covers residents, city government workers, and private sector employees including non-residents.
Binay recently announced the opening of the registration site, makatibusiness.safemakati.com, for private businesses to register their employees for vaccination under Category A4.