The city government of Davao is planning to give incentives to individuals who finally decide to be vaccinated with the first dose after a period of hesitation.
Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said the incentives will soon be announced as a step to encourage all Dabawenyos to be protected against Covid-19.
The mayor said this was discussed during a meeting last week after a backlog of 438,000 for the first dose was reported.
The mayor said it was assessed that these are the people who will not go to the vaccine centers, people who do not believe in vaccines, and the people who are daily wage earners whose work is more important to them.
The plan to incentivize the vaccination drive could be an effective one. It could be expensive, it could be cheap. What is important is that it could be worth the expense, and effective in increasing tremendously the number of Dabawenyos vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.
We encourage our city authorities to think of as many effective strategies that would result in inoculating a percentage of people that will enable the populace to achieve herd immunity against the pandemic.
One such strategy proven effective is the roll-out of the “Bakuna Nights” recently. Droves of people went to two designated vaccination centers to have themselves vaccinated. The key here, it seems, was the schedule.
