Unvaccinated students to be barred from face-to-face learning

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As the education sector prepares to undergo its most ‘normal’ state of operations since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, more vaccination requirements will be implemented to ensure the safety of students and staff on school plants.

According to this week’s post-Cabinet report, after robust discussions involving Chief Medical Officer Dr Rhonda Sealey-Thomas and Education Director Clare Browne in Cabinet, “the CMO advised that, based on the present epidemiological situation in the country, all schools should return to face-to-face instruction from Tuesday, November 2”.The report read further that “all students who are eligible to be vaccinated are required to do so within 14 days”.

Last week, the government disclosed that about 2,000 students have not yet been vaccinated, while more than 75 percent of those eligible have received a first shot. It noted too that the continued vaccination of students would depend on the receipt of more Pfizer vaccines, after the first batch received was exhausted.

Since then, the Health Ministry has received 5,000 Pfizer doses from St Lucia and another 21,000 doses are expected from the United States early next week.

With the authorities keen to avoid any outbreaks in schools and subsequent disruptions to the education sector, Information Minister Melford Nicholas reiterated that all eligible students must be vaccinated, adding that those who fail to adhere to the requirement will be barred from face-to-face learning.

“We are expecting all those eligible students to become vaccinated [as] the vaccines have now become available. The implication of course, is that if at the end of the 14-day period students are still unvaccinated and they do not have a medical or religious exemption, they will be required to be removed from the classrooms.

“It is the intention of the government that all teachers [and other] staff for all schools, both public and private, be fully vaccinated in order for them to have face-to-face contact.”

He also reminded that the legal framework has been adjusted to account for the vaccine requirement, which should leave students with no option than to comply for their safety and those around them.

Meanwhile, the Education Director has declared their readiness for the reopening of all schools, noting that preparation has been ongoing for the past weeks. He also stressed the need to maintain the safety of all involved and spoke on the logistical efforts that have been made in that regard.

“We have put in place substitute teachers to replace those unvaccinated teachers who remain on unpaid leave, so that schools can function properly…[and] we are still putting one or two persons in.

“There will be a shift system and perhaps a shift system that will continue well into the future, because the way we used to put students in a classroom didn’t quite allow even for three feet between the students.

“We can’t let our guard down. If we were to ever do that, then we will be back with Covid numbers sky-high. We have to make sure that things are in place so that when parents send their children to school, the children are relatively safe,” he explained. — DAILY OBSERVER

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16 COMMENTS

  1. Listening Pringle this morning on Darren’s show, I have to again shake my head. It cannot get duncer than this. He claims the government is forcing children to break the law as they will not attend school if they are not vaccinated. And he refers to the education act. I guess he forgets that there is a mandate in place for any child to be admitted to school to be vaccinated. And that is since pre-school and primary school.
    He says he believes in the science, but fails to understand that it is the science that dictates these mandates. It is not a politician that gets up and just comes up with these mandates. They are guided by the health professionals and the science.

    • “They are guided by the health professionals and the science”.

      I have to disagree with you on this statement. The covid -19 situation is fluid and as we have seen here in Antigua and around the world government policies are constantly changing.

      Our nation will suffer irreparable damage in the long run as a result of these mandates and the negative impacts they are having on families and especially our young people’s right to quality education.

  2. Stop forcing the children to take vaccine, this government is realy wicked let their parents decide…. Alot of us in this Country is still wondering if you Prime Minister took the vaccine.Time will come when you will be exposed.

    • But the first thing the children get when they are born is a vaccine. And they have to get their vaccine all up to15 yrs. If they are not vaccinated they cannot start preschool or primary school. So what is the difference? I hope u all realise that all of us are alive because of vaccine from since we were born.

      • The DIFFERENCE is this: Those vaccines TOOK years to develop some more than 15 years and use tried and trusted methods. These mRNA vaccines TOOK about a year!

  3. The legal framework has been adjusted for the vaccine requirement ? Tell me when it’s hasn’t been.
    They go to Parliament and rubber stamp anything they need with little opposition.
    How is it going to stop the spread . IT DOESN’T STOP SHIT THE ONLY THING IT DOES IT MIGHT REDUCE THE SEVERITY OF YOUR ILLNESS AND EMPHASIS ON THE WORD MIGHT . SOME VACCINATED STILL DIE FROM IT.
    MAN THEY NEVER GO OFF SCRIPT WITH THE TALKING POINTS.

  5. Neither the government or so-called scientists know squat. The science keeps changing everyday. Did the scientist know that the Pfizer vaccine would loose much of its effectiveness after six months? This is the same vaccine they are giving to children. The scientists said vaccines should not be mixed, now they are saying it is ok. And in the process Big Pharma continues to rake in big bucks. This is just a big experiment to see what the fall out is. Molwyn Joseph can probably see the future. Is he not building a morgue?

  6. The 3vil has shown it’s face upon the land, it’s takes a liardccine for people to get back to normal, I wonder if he the PM is normal himself. How can you force our little ones to take something that is killing people and we sure know that it is not health complexity. A liardccine so powerful that you 3vil doers will bar students from school really? Is that what you call a vaccine?? I tell you PM you best start counting ants because you are going to have a hell of a lot to pay for. And all these other person’s carrying out your dirty works. Why don’t you tell us the truth about Christopher Columbus, Nelson, cuz for all these years we are only taught what the school critculum has provided us with, lies after lies . We are getting to know truth do you? Do you know who you really are?? I’m getting disgusted by the works of the government it’s all dirty and nasty. No child does not need to suffer by your dirty fingers, so please we need truth?

  7. I DON’T KNOW WHERE THE PEOPLE OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA PRIME MINISTER REALLY IS , IT’S SEEMS TO ME HE WANTS TO BE THE WICKEDEST MAN JUST BEHIND THE USA AMERICA FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA VAMPIRE JOE DEMONIC SATANIC VAMPIRE JOE BIDEN.LOOK AT THE LIFE OF BLACK SATANIC INFIDELS AND PAGANS AT IT’S VERY BEST.I AM STILL TRYING TO COME WITH TERMS OF WHAT’S REALLY HAPPENING IN ANTIGUA. IF THE PRIME JESUIT MINISTER, BROWN AND THE WHOLE OF HIS POLITICAL PARTY THINK IT’S JUST GOING TO BE LIKE THAT, THEY ARE REALLY AND MUST BE LIVING IN ILLUSION.THE ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA WAS JUST DECEIVED BY AN INFIDEL ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH HOLYSEE CORPORATION FAMILIES JESUIT PRIME MINISTER, BROWN.LOOK AT HIS HEART , WHERE IS HIS HEART, WHERE IS HIS SENSES,ARE THEY OWN BY THE VATICAN PAPACY POPE ROME VATICAN PAPACY JESUIT FRANCIS,OR THE PEOPLE OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA ARE ALSO SUDDENLY OWN BY THE VATICAN PAPACY JESUIT FRANCIS.THE PEOPLE OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA SEEMS QUITE KNOWLEDGLESS OF WHAT’S REALLY TAKING PLACE AND THE PRIME MINISTER AND HIS WHOLE PARTY LOVES IT THAT WAY. IT’S PROPHECY AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC DON’T SEEMS TO BE KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THE WHOLE CORONAVIRUS AND THE PRIME MINISTER DRINKS THE BLOOD OF THE INFIDEL PUBLIC.BEFORE I WRITE ANY FURTHER,LET ME SAY THIS TO Gaston brown and molwyn Joseph,headed and the whole of bird family and political party THE BLOOD OF AN INDEPENDENT TERRORIST IS GOING TO BURN ON YOUR HEAD,YES THE BLOOD THAT IS SHED IT’S GOING TO BURN ON THE GENERAL HEAD OF THE BIRD POLITICAL PARTY. AS I SAID BEFORE IT’S PROPHECY, REVELATION CHAPTER 13 AND THAT INFIDEL WHITE WASH JESUIT DEMON INFIDEL VENOMOUS PRIME MINISTER HAD JUST FORGE A MIRACLE TO THE PEOPLE OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, THAT WE READS ABOUT IN REVELATION CHAPTER 13. THE MIRACLES THAT WERE FORGED ARE ALL THE SO CALLED PROTOCOLS, MEASURES,AND RESTRICTIONS.WHAT THAT BIRD POLITICAL PARTY WITH THAT PRIME MINISTER brown HAD JUST DONE TO THE ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA BLOOD IS TO MAKE AN IMAGE TO THE BREAST , GOVERNMENTALLY, TOTALITARIANISM.THE GENERAL ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA PUBLIC HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF PROPHECY AND REVELATION CHAPTER 13.THE BIRD POLITICAL PARTY WITH THAT PRIME MINISTER BROWN HAD JUST MAKE AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST GOVERNMENTALLY WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC BLOOD.THE DEATH TOLL IN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA ARE STAGED AND FAKE, IT’S PART OF THE INFIDEL ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH PRIME MINISTER MIRACLES.,IF NO DOCTOR COULD HAVE GIVEN YOU NO TEST RESULTS ON THE ISLAND THAN SENDING SAMPLES TO TRINIDAD , YOU SHOULD NOT BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING WAS IN EXISTENCE.I KNOW MOST OF YOU HAD HEARD ABOUT VACCINE PASSPORT TO TRAVEL,SO THIS VIRUS WAS STAGED TO IMPLEMENT THE MARK OF THE BEAST A VACCINE WOUND OR PUNCTURE IN THE SKIN TO TRAVEL ABROAD.LOOK BACK WHEN THEY SAID THE SO CALLED VIRUS HAD JUST STARTED, EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE AS REAL AS EVER PERTAINING THE VIRUS,BUT THEY KNOW THIS WOULD BE THEIR OUTCOME,A MARK TO BUY AND SELL.IE WE WERE TO LOOK BEYOND THE VACCINE IN THE VERT NEAR FUTURE IT’ MUST BE A BARCODE PRINTED ON THE FOREHEAD AND THE HAND FOR BETTER VACCINE IDENTIFICATION,OR A HAND MICROCHIP,BUT THE VACCINES ARE PLAYING THE LEADING ROLE IN THE FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY REVELATION CHAPTER 13. AGAIN LET ME SAY THIS TO THE WHOLE BIRD POLITICAL PARTY, IT’S GREAVING MY HEART TO SEE WHAT ILLUSION YOU HAD USED TO DETERIORATE THE LIVES OF THE ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA PEOPLE, HEARTLESS MURDERERS,THEY SHOULD DIE THE DEATH OF AN HEARTLESS MURDERER. CORONAVIRUS, CORONA, SUN 😎 CORONA IS THAT FIRE USA AMERICA HAD MAKE TO COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, BEING THE SECOND BEAST IN REVELATION CHAPTER 13, WHICH HAD TWO HORNS AS A LAMB AND HE SPEAKS AS A DRAGON.WHEN THE CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN THEY WERE TO MAKE AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST GOVERNMENTALLY INTERNATIONALLY TOTALITARIAN,MAKE AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST.THE SAID WORD CORONA WAS TO COME WITH THE NUMBER OF THE INFIDEL ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH ROME VATICAN PAPACY JESUIT FRANCIS 6 ,6 FEET APART SOCIAL DISTANCING ,OR THE NUMBER OF THE MAN.666,666,666,666,666,666,666,666,THE SAID WORD CORONA WAS TO COME WITH A DISTINGUISHED MARK TO BUY AND SELL,AND HE CAUSETH BOTH GREAT AND SMALL ,FREE AND BOND,RICH AND POOR TO RECEIVE A MART IN THEIR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD ,SO THAT’S WHY I AM SAYING ANYTHING FURTHER THAN THAT VACCINE IS A PRINTED BARCODE ON THE FOREHEAD OR THE RIGHT HAND,OR AN IMPLANTED CHIP TO BETTER IDENTIFY ALL WHO HAD TAKEN THE PROPHECY WORD CORONA, CORONAVIRUS, 🌞 SUN 😎 CORONA VACCINES.VACCINE PASSPORT. AND HE THE SECOND BEAST HAD MADE A FIRE TO COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN.AGAIN A BLOOD IS GOING TO BURN ON THE prime minister Gaston brown head and the whole of bird family political party,YES BY THE MIND OF AN INDEPENDENT TERRORIST. LOVE RASTAFARI HAILE SELASSIE THE FIRST, PLEASE READ REVELATION CHAPTER 13.LOVE RASTAFARI . MORRISON K MARTIN.

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