The Department of Health will set up COVID-19 vaccination sites in schools to encourage inoculation, DOH officer-in-charge and Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said Friday.
“We are going to set up vaccination sites in schools… to further encourage not just children but also their mothers when they go to school and they bring their children there,” Vergeire said in an interview on ANC.
Vergeire, however, stressed that vaccination should not be a prerequisite for attending face-to-face classes as this may lead to disenfranchisement.“Well, definitely, the vaccines or the vaccination should not be a prerequisite to going to school. This would disenfranchise other children whose parents would really not allow their children to have themselves vaccinated,” she said.
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