Apple To Offer COVID-19 Vaccine Shots At Its Offices For Employees
This announcement was made by an Apple spokesperson today where it revealed that the Cupertino giant will be working with popular drugstore chain Wallgreens Boots Alliance Inc to offer the vaccines to its employees.
Apple has now announced that it will be starting a vaccination program at its offices to allow its employees to get a voluntary jab of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Reuters
Reported first by Reuters, this announcement was made by an Apple spokesperson today.
The spokesperson revealed that the Cupertino giant will be working with popular drugstore chain Wallgreens Boots Alliance Inc to offer the vaccines to its employees.
Apple has also announced that it would soon open a website where it would ask its workers to sign up for appointments, according to the aforementioned spokesperson.
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Just a few weeks ago, Apple had announced that it was offering paid time off to its employees who have COVID-19 appointments in order to encourage them, and not be worried about getting sick due to side effects.
This announcement came right after the state of California announced eligibility for vaccination of people over the age of 16 years starting April 15. This will soon be expanding to other states of the nation.
Apple earlier had revealed plans to have more of its staff work at its corporate office in June this year as revealed by CEO Tim Cook at a town-hall meeting conducted in December last year.
This makes Apple the first tech company in Silicon Valley to commence a program that would allow its employees to get vaccinated. As of now, no other tech company has come forward with a similar initiative.
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Reuters
However, Apple isn¡¯t the first company to start such an initiative. During the early days of April, Deutsche Banik AG announced that it would offer its employees in the New York office vaccinations at its offices.
Even Amazon had announced last month that it is going to commence on-site vaccinations for its frontline employees that are responsible for making deliveries across the nation. The vaccinations commenced at Amazon facilities in Missouri, Nevada and Kansas.
