Vaccination of workers key to economy’s full reopening

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Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion stressed the importance of inoculating workers in the full reopening of the economy, although he stopped short of saying he would support a proposal in Congress to make vaccination mandatory. This was in light of a bill in the House of Representative seeking to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory. For Concepcion, the government needs to encourage the public to take the vaccine. “Let’s not wait for a legislation that will make vaccines mandatory,” said Concepcion in a statement on Wednesday. “But it will come to that point if the turnout is poor.”

Concepcion appealed to the Department of Labor and Employment to take a stronger s…

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