MANILA - Philippine Consul General to Hong Kong Raly Tejada said the city’s government should not force domestic workers to get COVID-19 vaccines, citing that the measure should apply to all foreign workers so that it will be "non-discriminatory".
"The Consulate has been supportive of HK’s 'free and voluntary' vaccination program and have actively campaigned for this. However, our nationals need not be forced to take the vaccine since I am confident that they will do the right thing." Hong Kong authorities also said that all domestic workers in the city should undergo testing before May 9. Two domestic workers had earlier been found to be infected with mutated strains of the COVID-19 virus.
"If vaccination becomes a condition to work in HK then its application should be non-discriminatory so that there is no feeling among our FDHs that they are being singled out. Maraming non-residents din na similarly situated at pareho ang linya ng trabaho so bakit FDH lang?" he said.
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