By Jenny Ortuoste
Malacañang Palace has called on economic frontliners on the A4 priority list to register for COVID-19 vaccination with their local government units (LGUs).
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said that there are online registration portals in the LGUs of the National Capital Region (NCR), Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal.
Included among the National COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment Plan’s A4-category frontliners are transport workers, market vendors, hotel workers, education workers, and certain other sectors whose work requires them to face people or work outside their homes.
These are the sectors under priority group A4 as approved by the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) on Thursday (April 15):
- commuter transport (land, air, and sea), including logistics;
- public and private wet and dry market vendors;
- frontline workers in groceries, supermarkets, delivery services;
- workers in manufacturing for food, beverage, medical and pharmaceutical products;
- frontline workers in food retail, including food service delivery;
- frontline workers in private and government financial services;
- frontline workers in hotels and accommodation establishments;
- priests, rabbis, imams, and other religious leaders;
- security guards/ personnel assigned in offices, agencies, and organizations identified in the list of priority industries/sectors;
- frontline workers in private and government news media;
- customer-facing personnel of telecoms, cable and internet service providers, electricity distribution and water distribution utilities;
- frontline personnel in basic education and higher education institutions and agencies;
- overseas Filipino workers, including those scheduled for deployment within two months;
- frontline workers in law/justice, security, and social protection sectors;
- frontline government workers engaged in the operations of government transport system, quarantine inspection;
- worker safety inspection and other COVID-19 response activities;
- frontline government workers in charge of tax collection, assessment of businesses for incentives, election, national ID, data collection personnel;
- diplomatic community and Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) personnel in consular operations;
- Department of Public Works and Highways personnel in charge of monitoring government infrastructure projects.
The IATF also approved the following:
- The continuation of the training of the national athletes at the Olympic Training Bubble in Calamba, Laguna;
- The extension of the temporary suspension of foreign nationals until April 30, 2021, while foreign nationals with valid entry exemption documents duly issued by the DFA prior to March 22, 2021 will be allowed entry into the Philippines.
Watch the PTV video report below:
