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South Africa: Teachers, Staff Urged to Be At School Ahead of Jabs
SAnews.gov.za, 21 June 2021
The Department of Basic Education is calling on all teachers and staff to be at school in order to prepare for the COVID-19 vaccination programme set to start on Wednesday. Read more »
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South Africa: Western Cape Education On Covid-19 Vaccination of Educators and Staff
Govt of SA, 21 June 2021
The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) is delighted that the National Government has secured additional doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) single dose COVID-19… Read more »
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South Africa: Counting the Cost of Lost Schooling in South Africa
The Conversation Africa, 21 June 2021
A year ago, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we predicted that school closures in South Africa would result in learning losses. A loss of contact learning time would lead to… Read more »
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South Africa: Vaccination of Teachers, Support Staff to Start On Wednesday
SAnews.gov.za, 21 June 2021
The Covid-19 vaccination of teachers and support staff will start this Wednesday until a day before the schools close to mark the end of the second term on 8 July 2021. Read more »
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South Africa: Week 5 - Teachers Will Be Vaccinated From Next Week - and Covax Will Deliver Pfizer Jabs By the End of June
Daily Maverick, 17 June 2021
South Africa's half a million teachers will be vaccinated from next week, regardless of their age -- and the country can expect millions of Pfizer doses from the Covax facility by… Read more »
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South Africa: Teachers to Be Vaccinated From Next Week
SAnews.gov.za, 17 June 2021
The National Health Department says it is ready to start vaccinating teachers in their numbers from next week. Read more »
Teachers Next in Line for South African Covid-19 Vaccine Jabs
The Department of Basic Education has called on all teachers and supstaff to be at school in order to prepare for the Covid-19 vaccination programme. In a statement, the department said the vaccination programme is an opportunity to normalise schooling and intensify the process of mitigating the impact of the outbreak.
School governing body associations have supported the vaccination programme and have committed to working closely with the department to ensure all targeted people receive the jab. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said: "For the next two weeks, we make the clarion call to our school communities to 'drop all, and vaccinate!' in order for us to successfully complete this program, we will need to keep schools open." Any disruptions, she said, "would be undesirable".
As of June 22, 2021, about 1,832,479 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in the country, of which 58,795 proved fatal and 1,656,680 resulted in recovery.
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