News24 reports that after weeks of engagements with both staff and students, the council of the University of Cape Town (UCT) has approved in principle a proposal to make Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for campus access.
The policy is expected to kick in on 1 January 2022. The policy requires that all staff (to be able to perform their duties) and students (as a condition of registration) provide acceptable proof of vaccination against Covid-19. UCT spokesperson Elijah Moholola said: "Council resolved that the university executive should proceed to establish an appropriately constituted panel, whose task would be to develop the operational details required to implement the campus access dispensation, as referred to above, including the principles and guidelines for exemption from a requirement to provide proof of vaccination." The UCT executive will report back to council at its December 2021 meeting. The university advised that most of the staff and students who completed a survey supported the policy. In addition, the UCT senate voted overwhelmingly in favour of mandatory vaccination at its last meeting in September.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Marvin Charles at News24
- Read too, UCT says most staff, students support mandatory vaccine policy, at EWN
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