By Sweeden Velado-Ramirez
As the country reaches another all-time high in the number of daily cases since August last year, and with the National Capital Region (NCR) as the epicenter, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion announced that prominent members of the private sector have decided to focus their vaccine donations to NCR following his discussion with Vaccine Czar Carlito Galvez Jr.
“Considering the situation and with the arrival of the first batch of our order from AstraZeneca this May and June—half of which would be donated to the government for its frontliners—we are recommending to Secretary Galvez and the whole of our government, together with Tessie Sy-Coson of SM Group and Ramon Ang of San Miguel Corporation, to direct the 50% donation intended for government priority sectors [to] NCR,” Concepcion said.
“We have agreed that we are willing to shoulder the vaccination of our company’s economic frontliners and those under our donation for the government. We in the private sector volunteered to donate half of the vaccines to our government frontliners to achieve our common goal of vaccinating the population as fast as possible.
“In this way, the faster the population would be vaccinated, the faster the economy shall bounce back,” Concepcion added.
The Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship called on all public servants to remain steadfast in implementing the T3 strategy — Test, Trace, and Treat.
