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News24 reports that the SA Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu) and the Professional Educators' Union (PEU) are so far satisfied with the vaccination of teachers, but say they will continue to monitor the process.
The national rollout of vaccinations for teachers began on Wednesday. "So far, we have not experienced any challenges with the vaccination of teachers. We are fine with the decision to keep schools open as long as teachers are safe and the learners," PEU president Johannes Motona indicated on Thursday. Sadtu said while it was satisfied with the process so far, there were some disappointments. The union was concerned that in the rural areas there were fewer vaccination sites. However, the Educators' Union of SA (EUSA) said it was not satisfied with the rollout for teachers and remained skeptical. "EUSA is skeptical about the sudden availability of additional 280k J&J jabs, especially, that weeks ago FDA in America said some batches of J&J were contaminated. We aren't satisfied at all," said EUSA’s Siphiwe Mpungose. The Department of Basic Education has set out to vaccinate its 582,000 teachers and school personnel within 10 working days. It declared the first day of the teacher vaccination programme a success, with approximately 48,000 jabs administered.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Canny Maphanga at News24
- See too, Good turnout of teachers for jabs as rollout of education sector kicks off, at SowetanLive
- And also, Minor glitches as teachers get jabs, at The Star
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