Sindh:
The Sindh government has decided to vaccinate ninth to 12th class students from September 6 in all private and public sector schools and colleges across the province. The meeting was presided over by Education Minister Syed Sardar Shah and other officials.
According to the decision, 1.42 million students from class IX to XII will be vaccinated. A statement issued by the Ministry of Health said that 2,527 teams will participate in the vaccination campaign in various schools and colleges.
The statement said that vaccination would be started first at the district level and later extended to the taluka level.
Meanwhile, the Health Minister directed the school management to seek the consent of the parents for vaccinating their children in educational institutions. He said that after the completion of this process, registration of vaccinated students would also be ensured. ۔
The Ministry of Health has said that it will complete all necessary arrangements within six days before starting the vaccination process in all educational institutions.
On August 20, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah had said that schools, colleges and universities would remain closed for another week so that teaching and non-teaching staff could get vaccinated.
Responding to a question at a press conference at the Chief Minister’s House in Karachi, he had said that the schools would reopen on August 30 instead of August 23.
The Chief Minister had said that children would have to show their parents’ vaccination cards for admission in schools, so it has become mandatory for parents to vaccinate themselves within a week.
Later, at a press conference on August 23, the provincial education minister announced that schools that had vaccinated 100 per cent of their staff with code-19 vaccines would be allowed to open on August 30.
He said that children would be allowed to go to school only if their parents had been vaccinated. Parents would have to obtain and submit a vaccination certificate from the National Database and Registration Authority.
