DepEd to personnel: ‘Be champions for the vaccine, get vaccinated!”

As the country receives more COVID-19 vaccines, Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones has encouraged teachers and non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd) to get inoculated.

Kami sa Department of Education, we would like to encourage our teachers to be vaccinated because it is not only a matter of protecting your personal rights, but it is also a matter of protecting the lives and health of children and staff who are also entrusted in our care,

Secretary Briones said in a statement.

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She appealed to the teachers to be vaccinated because it is a way to not only protect themselves from the virus but also to protect the lives and health of the children and staff who were entrusted in their care.

Recently, the IATF approved the inclusion of education frontliners in the A4 priority list of the National Deployment and Vaccination Plan for COVID-19 (NDVP) after she appealed for the teachers to be included in the priority list.

Briones reiterated that teachers and personnel, who fall under higher priority categories, including those who are medical frontliners (A1), senior citizens (A2), and with comorbidities (A3), can already register for vaccination in their respective local government units.

She also urged DepEd staff to assist in educating the public about vaccines and vaccination procedures.

Teachers must be champions for the vaccine in their respective communities. We are continuously conducting information campaigns as well as surveys to monitor the responses of our teachers to this policy,

she said.

DepEd launches the Vacc2School: Ligtas na Bakuna Para sa Balik-Eskwela for teaching and non-teaching personnel to spread awareness and information on the importance of getting the COVID-19 vaccine and other mitigation efforts.

The agency also considers conducting town hall meetings to address the concerns of stakeholders and planning workshops for championing vaccination advocacies.

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