Concepcion proposed to direct the private sector vaccine donations to the National Capital Region

AS the country reach another all-time high in daily cases since August, and with the National Capital Region (NCR) as the epicenter of this resurgence of cases, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo Founder, Joey Concepcion, announced that the private sector has decided to focus their vaccine donations to NCR. Concepcion said that he already had a discussion with Secretary Galvez regarding this matter.

“We are now seeing a resurgence of cases in the country and the epicenter of these cases is the NCR. Considering the situation and with the arrival of the first batch of our order from Astrazeneca this May and June—half of which would be donated to the government for its frontliners—we are recommending to Secretary Galvez and the whole of our government, together with Tessie Sy-coson of SM Group and Ramon Ang of San Miguel Corporation, to direct the 50 percent donation intended for government priority sectors in Ncr,”concepcion forwarded.

“We have agreed that we are willing to shoulder the vaccination of our company’s economic frontliners and those under our donation for the government. We, in the private sector, volunteered to donate half of the vaccines to our government frontliners to achieve our common goal of vaccinating the population as fast as possible. In this way, the faster the population would be vaccinated, the faster the economy shall bounce back,” Concepcion added.

With the recent statistics from DOH, NCR has 287,360 total cases (by date of onset illness) of COVID-19 as of March 23, 2021. For the last 14 days, it has a record of 38,785 COVID-19 cases while a record of 8,845 reported cases from March 18 to March 23, 2021. As of March 22 data, NCR has topped all the regions with new cases with a total of 4,103 cases, significantly far from the runner up which is CALABARZON with 1,327 new cases.

“We have to remain steadfast in our strategy, the T3—test, Trace and Treat. We really have been stable and we should continue with our targeted testing, proper and serious tracing, and applying appropriate treatment, most especially that the nationwide immunization program of the government has already started,” Concepcion highlighted.

“Like what I have been always saying, our nuclear warhead in this war against COVID-19 is the vaccine. All of our initiatives of procuring these vaccines were only possible because of the government’s support. From the time when we volunteered to give half of our procured doses to our government frontliners, we have been hand-in-hand with the government in combating this pandemic. And now with the final stage of this battle, given the conditions of this war, I suggest that our arsenal shall be focused on where most of our enemies are present right now, in NCR. After eliminating this huge threat, it would be easier for us to defeat the smaller enemies that we can find in other regions,” Concepcion strategized.