The government has included the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector employees under A4 priority or economic frontliners the government’s COVID-19 vaccination program, Malacañang said Friday.
According to Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque, the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) Resolution 116 adopted this week allowed the inclusion.
Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, retailers, and attendants were also put under the A4.2 priority list.
Also included in the A4 priority group are:
- 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
Gov’t includes BPO workers under A4 priority list
- 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
According to the government, after vaccinating health workers, senior citizens, and people with illnesses or comorbidities against COVID-19, those in the A4 priority group will follow.
“Next is economic sectors that are needed to ensure security, consumer and worker safety, and those working in priority government projects, in particular, itong ating COVID response,” explained National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Undersecretary Rose Edillon.
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