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In its efforts to help increase education and access to vaccines for more Filipinos, Grab Philippines has officially launched its GrabBayanihan Vaccination Support Program which includes a wide range of measures that could encourage consumers and driver and delivery partners to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Grab Philippines will be working closely with the national and local government units and leverage its ground fleet network and app to offer mobility, logistics and communications for their respective vaccination programs.
As the Philippines continues to roll out batches of vaccines from different brands across the globe, Grab Philippines is committed to supporting informed and equitable access to vaccines for all Filipinos. To support easy access to the COVID-19 vaccine and encourage its employees, partners and consumers to get vaccinated through their local respective units, the super app will apply the following:
* Work with local and national governments to include Grab driver- and delivery-partners in the National Vaccination Program of the Philippine Government as economic frontliners.
* Work with its partners to provide pre- and post-vaccination telemedical consultation to help identify the comorbidity status of its driver- and delivery-partners, and connect them with their local governments for inoculation.
* Extend its Post-Vaccination Livelihood Protection insurance policy free of charge to cover the potential loss of income to driver- and delivery-partners resulting from COVID-19 vaccine side effects.
* Create a specialized fleet of vaccinated driver-partners to provide discounted mobility solutions for senior citizens and high-risk individuals or those with comorbidities going to and from vaccination centers.
* Subject to vaccine supply availability, Grab Philippines will subsidize the cost of COVID-19 vaccines for driver- and delivery-partners who are not covered by the national vaccination program.
* Cover the cost of COVID-19 vaccinations for all Grab Philippines employees and their immediate family members.
On the other hand, in coordination with the Department of Health (DOH), Grab Philippines will provide up-to-date vaccination information to be released within dedicated high-visibility spaces in the Grab super app in order to combat misinformation and boost public confidence in COVID-19 vaccines. To help national and local government units better understand public sentiment on vacoines, Grab enables the DOH to conduct lightning polls and gather real-time data on these sentiments through the "COVID-19 Snap Survey". Furthermore, Grab will also conduct a series of workshops and town hall meetings to educate its partners on the benefits of getting vaccinated.
“Many of our kababayans spent the last year making enormous sacrifices for our communities – showing the best of who we are as Filipinos. Now that we are gradually striving towards socio-economic recovery, we believe that the vaccination efforts- from both the private and public sectors- provide much-needed hope for many of our kababayans. Through Grab Philippines’ technology, platform, and partnerships, we are reinforcing our commitment to supporting livelihoods, and helping the recovery of our communities," said Grab Philippines Country Head Grace Vera Cruz.
