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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Cape Town – Teachers\u2019 unions have confirmed that teachers, cleaners and other support staff at public schools could be vaccinated against Covid-19 this month.<\/p>\n

\u200eNational Professional Teachers\u2019 Organisation of South Africa executive director Basil Manuel said at least 500 000 Johnson & Johnson (J&) doses have been secured for the education sector, and the vaccine was still awaiting approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).<\/p>\n

Initially, the vaccine was expected to arrive in the country last Saturday.<\/p>\n

He said the challenge was that the doses have a window of three weeks for distribution and administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is anticipated that the vaccination process will commence tomorrow,\u201d said Manuel.<\/p>\n

He said beneficiaries would include all teaching and non-teaching staff in the public sector, including school governing body-funded personnel and the staff of teachers\u2019 unions.<\/p>\n

Manuel said personnel who were above the age of 40 would be vaccinated first.<\/p>\n

South African Democratic Teachers Union general secretary Mugwena Maluleke said it was a joint effort by teacher unions working together with the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to protect the future of children by allowing the teaching fraternity to be immunised.<\/p>\n

DBE spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga referred the Cape Argus to the Department of Health, stating \u201cthey (are the ones) handling all issues regarding the vaccination programme in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n

Health department spokesperson Popo Maja said nothing has been concluded yet. \u201cThere\u2019s no vaccine here yet. This is still in planning,\u201d said Maja.<\/p>\n

National Association of School Governing Bodies chief executive Matakanya Matakanye said they supported the effort made by the stakeholders in education.<\/p>\n

Matakanye said the association was one of the movers in the initiative for teachers to be vaccinated as front-liners, more specifically now that Grade R to Grade Seven learners were expected to return to normal schooling on July 26.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call upon DBE to do more in the protection of our children,\u201d said Matakanye.<\/p>\n

Educators Union of SA provincial chairperson Andr\u00e9 de Bruyn said it was hoped that the vaccines would not expire soon.<\/p>\n

De Bruyn asked: \u201cWhere will the government find all these vaccines, as we are unsure at the moment if the FDA approved the J&J vaccines as being safe?\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the union was unwavering in its stance that should there be no vaccines for teachers, there should be no full-capacity classes.<\/p>\n

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Cape Argus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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