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Alarm as 9,113 Gauteng teachers refuse to take Covid vaccine

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education90Independent Media reports that the Gauteng Department of Basic Education (DBE) is ‘gravely alarmed’ after more than 9113 teachers and support staff refused to take Covid-19 vaccine jabs in the province.

Covid-19 vaccinations have been taking place across the country for teachers and support staff in the education sector in a bid to protect them from the coronavirus. The Education Sector Vaccination Rollout Programme commenced on 23 June for a period of just over two weeks, allowing teachers and education sector officials to get their jabs. Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said he was concerned by the latest development of teachers and support staff in the sector refusing to take the jabs. “We are very worried that nearly 10,000 of our personnel in the Gauteng education sector are, for one reason or the other, refusing to be vaccinated against this deadly virus which has wreaked havoc in our schools and communities by taking away our loved ones,” he said. Vaccinations are voluntary in nature. In Gauteng, over 53,000 teachers and support staff have been vaccinated against the virus so far out of a target of over 120,000 people. “The number of vaccinated personnel is expected to increase next week as the delays in the capturing of educators and support staff from SGBs and independent schools has been resolved,” DBE spokesperson Steve Mabona explained. The DBE said it would continue to urge those who refused to take the vaccine to do so as contact learning was expected to resume after the mid-year holidays.

  • Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sihle Mlambo at Independent Media
  • Read too, Limpopo jabs ahead of the rest with its ‘tailor-made’ vaccination roll-out, at Daily Maverick


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