The Minister of Education made a very important announcement with an impact decision that will be applied in all schools in Romania, and will have effects for millions of students, and this is because the vaccination promotion campaign will not end, but will be extended to cover children aged 5-11 years.
The Minister of Education says that it is possible to organize debates in schools so that parents can learn from experts relevant information that will help them make a decision regarding the vaccination of young or old children, everything can be implemented during next.
"Probably yes, from the perspective of sanitary safety, but on the other hand there would have been many shortcomings. It is certain that at the moment we do not have. In 2015, when I was in the government, I did not know that we would need rapid testing (n. ed. regarding ONAC purchases), or RT-PCR, nor in 2016, or 2017, 2018, so we will know what the products are non-sacrificing depending on the accentual dynamics.
We have always declared the availability of support to facilitate access to information in schools and kindergartens, we had numerous campaigns, they were not so well known, but the result is the following, in education we have the largest vaccinated socio-professional category, much more 200.000 in absolute value.
The percentage is twice the national average. In education, we have almost 3000 schools and kindergartens where the vaccination rate is 100%. These things happened through the responsibility of colleagues, but also through a campaign, more or less visible, which we will continue. There is information from the CNCAV president that there are almost 4000 registrations in the vaccination platform for children aged 5-11.
Recently, the progress for vaccination among children has been slow. The average vaccination among students is kept at 4000 per week, but with the possibility of vaccinating those aged 5-11, we will see how the vaccination rate among students will evolve. Parents' questions are all the more natural, the younger they are, they are understandable.
Schools have the duty to facilitate the access of experts in online meetings, most of the time, to have groups of parents and students who ask questions about vaccination, in order to make the right decision about vaccinating children aged 5-11." A disclosure government official.
