Robredo on no vaccine, no ride: 'Hindi kailangan takutan'

Vice President Leni Robredo on Thursday urged the government to educate and provide incentives for vaccination against COVID-19 instead of imposing restrictions on the unvaccinated.

Robredo made the remark as she opposed the Department of Transportation's directive banning unvaccinated commuters from taking public transportation in Metro Manila.

"Hindi kailangan takutan. Kailangan tiyagaan to educate people. You have to make sure that iyong vaccination, accessible to them and pangatlo to incentivize," Robredo said on CNN Philippines.

"Dapat sana yung vaccination hindi siya  lalabas na paparusahan ka kung di ka bakunado pero talagang we go out of our way and exert our best effort to really educate to bring the vaccination where people are and have incentive," she added.

[Vaccination should not be as if we are punishing the unvaccinated but really we go out of our way and exert our best effort to really educate people to bring the vaccination where people are and have incentive.]

The DOTr prohibited the unvaccinated from using public transportation, citing that it supports President Rodrigo Duterte's order to restrict the movement of unvaccinated people nationwide.

In response to the backlash, DOTr said unvaccinated people getting sick was more anti-life than allowing only vaccinated people to ride public transport. —NB, GMA News