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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.
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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.   ....

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