Scores of business establishments in Quezon City are offering discounts to vaccinated customers to encourage people to get themselves inoculated against COVID-19, according to Councilor Winston Castelo.
In the Ever Gotesco-Commonwealth Avenue area in the city’s District 2, food and service shops have launched Bakuna-Diskwento in partnership with Castelo and his wife Rep. Precious Hipolito Castelo.
He said the project offers five to 10 percent discounts to vaccinated patrons with some establishments also giving free drinks.
“It’s our way of encouraging our people to get themselves vaccinated and protected against the highly infectious new coronavirus and the deadly COVID-19 illness it is causing,” he added.
The latest data showed that about 34 percent of the city’s target of 1.7 million residents have already been inoculated.
“We still have a long way to go, so we should leave no stone unturned in encouraging our people to take their vaccine,” Castelo said.
The Castelo couple urged other stores in the city to join similar promos.
“Making this a city-wide undertaking would entice more residents to get vaccine protection,” the councilor said.
He called on the city vaccinators to take extra care in administering the vaccine to avoid breaching protocols.
“Breaches and mistakes will just delay our vaccination program. We might as well have a slow-but-sure mindset,” he stressed.