Sadtu: Priority must be given to teachers for Covid jabs
Teachers should be next in line to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
That's the call from teachers' unions, as primary schools get ready to welcome pupils back on a full-time basis from July 26.
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"Teachers they are willing that's the question they were asking even at the beginning of the year,” says Nomarashiya Caluza, from the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu).
Caluza says teachers should be given priority.
"As the department was recruiting, it has received more than three thousand applications from teachers with comorbidities so it tells you that they need the vaccine."
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Sibusiso Malinga, who's with the National Teachers Union (Natu), says schools need to be prepared.
"Precautionary measures they must be in place. If there are no such precautionary measures we cannot allow our teachers and poor learners to go back to school in full force."
