OVER 2,000 workers and their families in Region 1 were inoculated against COVID-19 during the three-day national simultaneous vaccination campaign.

The data from Department of Labor and Employment Regional Office 1 (DOLE RO1) showed 2,133 workers and their family members sought the assistance of DOLE for their vaccination from November 29 to December 1, 2021, during the “Bayanihan, Bakunahan: Ligtas, Lakas, Buong Pinas” intensive vaccination campaign.

“This number can even be higher, as we await for our Field Offices to complete the encoding into our database of the names of these DOLE-assisted workers,” said Regional Director Evelyn Ramos.

To amplify the call for vaccination among workers, and per directive from Labor Secretary Silvestre “Bebot” Bello III, DOLE RO1 mobilized its personnel in the Regional Office and the six field offices across the region to distribute leaflets in shopping malls, churches, public markets, and other worksites.

It also provided free transport services to workers, especially the disadvantaged who had no means to proceed to vaccination sites due to distance and fare concerns and tapped 313 youth workers under the DOLE Government Internship Program in select Local Government Units to help expedite the encoding of real-time data to the national vaccination database of the Department of Information and Communications Technology. (Eva Visperas)