Iminungkahi ni Senator Joel Villanueva na unahin ang mga essential worker, partikular na ang maliliit ang kinikita, sa coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program ng gobyerno.

Katwiran ni Villanueva, chairman ng Senate Committee on Labor and Employment, dapat na iprayoridad nito sa pagbabakuna ang nasa essential services, katulad ng delivery trucks, market attendants at construction workers, dahil sa kanila nakasalalay ang tuloy-tuloy na pagbangon ng ekonomiya ng bansa.

Tiniyak nito na hihimayin niya ang inoculation plan ng pamahalan kapag nagpulong Committee of the Whole ng Senado ngayong araw, kung saan inaasaan nilang dadalo ang mga opisyal ng Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) na nangangasiwa sa paga-aksyon laban sa pandemya, gayundin din ang mga kinakatawan ng Department of Health, to attend.

“We have to make sure that workers providing essential services are included in the government’s priority list, on top of its initial pronouncements of prioritizing healthcare workers, the police and the military, and the elderly. Workers in the services industry, construction workers in public and private projects, market attendants, delivery riders, security guards, and workers in food retail and distribution networks are those who the government should consider to include in the priority list,” paliwanag nito.

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“They are the workers who keep the economy going. They should be included in the vaccination program,” dagdag pa ng senador.