DOLE: More COVID-19 jabs secured for worker sectors

The National Task Force Against COVID-19 has approved DOLE's request for an additional 452,000 doses of vaccines for workers in the manufacturing and construction industries.

These vaccines will be allocated to factory workers in Regions 4A (Calabarzon), 3 (Central Luzon), and 7 (Central Visayas) as well as construction workers in NCR.

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello thanked vaccine czar Carlito Galvez for the immediate approval, which aims to speed up economic recovery.

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