The Makati City local government opened on Thursday its newest vaccination site as it started to inoculate people under the A4 (economic frontliners) priority group.

The vaccination site, which is located at the 3rd floor of the Glorietta 5 mall on Ayala Avenue, can accommodate 500 vaccinees per day.

“We have made these strategic partnerships with the private sector to accommodate the expected influx of vaccine registrants from the A4 category. We laud the Ayala Corporation and Megaworld Corporation for readily sharing their resources as we begin another critical phase in the Bakuna Makati mass vaccination program,” Makati City Mayor Abby Binay said.

Meanwhile, Binay said that another vaccination site will be opened on Friday, June 11, at the second floor of San Lorenzo Place mall at the corner of Chino Roces Avenue and EDSA. She added that this vaccination site can serve up to 400 vaccinees per day

“We need to ensure fast yet safe vaccination against COVID-19 for our economic frontliners so that businesses in the city can continue to recover and thrive, thus fuelling faster economic recovery,” the mayor said.

As classified by the Department of Health (DOH), the A4 category is subdivided as follows:

A4.1 – Private sector workers who work outside their homes and Overseas Filipino Workers scheduled for deployment within four months;

A4.2 – Employees in government agencies and instrumentalities, including government-owned or controlled corporations (GOCCs) and local government units; and

A4.3 - Informal sector workers and self-employed who work outside their homes and those working in private households.

Binay said that the Makati Coliseum, Vax OTG at Circuit Makati grounds, and various vaccination sites in public schools and villages of the city will continue to cater to the A1 to A3 groups.

The city government recently launched its registration site, makatibusiness.safemakati.com for private businesses to register their employees for vaccination under the A4 priority group.

According to Binay, one million doses of vaccines ordered by the city government are expected to arrive in July under the Bakuna Makati program, which covers residents, city government workers, and private sector employees including non-residents.