All Systems Go For The Basic Education Vaccination Programme

PLANS are under way to vaccinate about 582 000 people in the education sector from Wednesday.

The department of basic education released a document on Saturday that show the intricacies of how they, together with the department of health, plan to inoculate public and private school teachers as well as support staff at schools across the country.

Inside Education has seen the sector’s vaccine plan document. It states that the majority of the people that are going to be vaccinated are teachers in public schools at 395 682.

The majority of these teachers are found in the Eastern Cape (52 844), Gauteng (71 276) and KwaZulu-Natal (92 995). 

There are 40 100 teachers from private schools that will be vaccinated. 

While there are 104 111 non-educators’ staff at public schools that will receive the jab, followed by 42 671 school governing body employed teachers, Early Childhood practitioners employed at public schools.