All teachers ordered to take Covid-19 jabs Tuesday April 27 2021 A teachers conducts a class session. Teaching usually involves 'direct contact' thus highly exposing parties involved to potential spreaders of the Covid-19 virus. PHOTO/FILE Summary The country is struggling with low uptake of the vaccines with hesitancy among some frontline workers who include teachers. Advertisement Government has issued a directive, asking all teachers to go for the Covid-19 vaccination as a requirement to stop the pandemic spread in schools, amid resistance from the teachers. Of the 260,717 teachers in the country, who are eligible for the Covid-19 jabs, only 8,517 (3 per cent) had been vaccinated by April 13, according to government statistics.