Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 26) — More private firms have announced free COVID-19 vaccines for employees and their kin, with bold inoculation targets set for 2021.

Ayala Group executives Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala and his brother Fernando said this week that they signed purchase deals for 1 million doses from Moderna and AstraZeneca. Part of the supply will be donated to the national government while the rest will be provided to company employees and offered to their families.

The plan is to start the mass vaccinations on June 1 towards a target of 10,000 shots per day across 20 mega vaccination sites in key cities in the country. The shots will be given by nearly 500 staff from its AC Health subsidiary.

“We believe that this amount will be sufficient to inoculate our fellow employees and our families, as well as our communities through our donation to the national government. We expect the first deliveries of these doses between May and June,” the Zobel brothers said in a statement.

Some 1,400 frontliners in the group’s Qualimed hospitals and isolation centers have been given vaccines as of March 19 using donated AstraZeneca and Sinovac doses from foreign donations, they added.

Businessman Tony Tan Caktiong’s Jollibee Foods Corp. on Tuesday also announced it is securing vaccines for employees and their dependents, household members, and extended family. It will cover workers across all brands and units: Jollibee, Chowking, Mang Inasal, Greenwich, Burger King, Red Ribbon, Panda Express, PHO24, commissaries, distribution centers, support functions, and the Jollibee Group Foundation.

The Aboitiz Group also committed in early March to provide free vaccines to over 30,000 team members and subcontractors using AstraZeneca doses.

Construction firm DMCI Holdings expects the arrival of over 20,000 Moderna vaccines, while the Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce & Industry is eyeing 500,000 Sinovac doses by April or May.

San Miguel Corporation is also spending close to ₱1 billion to vaccinate all 70,000 employees and extended workforce for free. Manny Pangilinan’s Metro Pacific Investments Corp. will also provide free vaccines for over 300,000 workers, qualified dependents, and household members.

Procurement of vaccines with emergency use authorization from the Philippines’ Food and Drug Administration – so far Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sinovac, and Sputnik V – is done through tripartite deals involving the private sector, the foreign drug maker, and the national government.

The deal with AstraZeneca involves a requirement to donate half of the doses bought by businesses to the Department of Health, although authorities clarified that this was a requirement sent by the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company and not by the Duterte administration.

Some private businesses have called on the government to let them import their own vaccines to speed up the mass inoculation and achievement of herd immunity, given the slow pace of state-run vaccinations.

The country has vaccinated 508,332 individuals as of March 23 or three weeks since the first batch of doses arrived, DOH data showed.

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