Apparel industry to join govt. vaccination scheme
View(s):Sri Lanka’s apparel sector is pushing for the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine to inoculate its workers.
The apparel industry will be targeting the inoculation of this vaccine on its own workers and in this respect is in discussion with the government to import stocks of the vaccine, Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) General Secretary Tuli Cooray told the Business Times.
The authorities have requested the apparel sector to establish a database of their workers and their locations, he said.
This is required to ensure that the mass scale vaccination programmes could be carried out once the vaccine arrives in the country from the locations in which these worker factories are located.
At present the apparel sector is in the process of identifying the 250,000 workers working in the industry and compiling their locations.
Discussions are also underway to ensure the government is not burdened with the purchase of these vaccines but that the apparel sector itself will contribute to purchasing it for its workers, Mr. Cooray.
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