Go Negosyo, malls join forces for shared vaccination sites

MANILA, Philippines — Go Negosyo, in partnership with SM Supermalls and Robinsons Land Corp., has launched close to 50 shared vaccination sites to assist and provide efficient access to vaccines to more than 300 micro, small and medium enterprises and their nearly 170,000 employees nationwide.

Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion said there is a need to halt the transmission of the Delta variant through an accelerated vaccination rollout.

“The Delta variant is here, and we must prepare now. With more and more cases being recorded, it has become a tight and dangerous race between the Delta variant, the government and private sector’s efforts to vaccinate the unvaccinated. We need to slow down the acceleration to buy us more time to inoculate the unprotected. Delta’s viral load is 1,000 times higher in people infected and is six times more transmissible. We must prepare now and build our wall of defense by striving for herd immunity. If we do it now, we can save more lives and livelihoods,” he said.

Concepcion further stressed the need to make use of the lockdown to vaccinate a considerable number of people in the country’s pandemic epicenter. “We need to do this as fast as we can, as we are aggressively rolling out vaccination efforts to prevent the transmission of the Delta variant across Metro Manila.”

Concepcion also acknowledged the support of the country’s major mall chains to facilitate the private sector’s inoculation rollouts.