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CEBU CITY, Philippines – Teachers and parents who have not yet received a coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine should register and be inoculated before the start of face-to-face sessions this year, according to Mayor Michael Rama.

This comes after DepEd-Central Visayas Regional Director Salustiano Jimenez warned in a media report that more than 5,000 instructors in Region 7 may not be allowed to participate in the limited in-school classes in August because they are still unvaccinated.

“All school owners, parents, and teachers, you know very well that if we call for face-to-face classes and yet hear that there are teachers who haven’t been vaccinated yet, what is that?” he remarked at a virtual press conference.

Rama emphasized the municipal government’s view that coercing persons to agree to immunization is illegal, but that inoculation is the only way to limit the risk of Covid-19 transmission.

He reminded teachers and parents that, in keeping with the municipal government’s goal of lowering health and safety limitations, they should at least consider shared responsibility while enjoying the existing risk rating of Alert Level 2’s freedom.

“They must get vaccinated if they love themselves.” They must get immunized if they care about the (school) students. “Vaccination is, without a doubt, the path to emancipation,” Rama stated.

According to Jimenez, out of around 77,000 public grade school teachers in 20 school divisions in Central Visayas, 7%, or 5,390, are still unvaccinated against Covid-19.

On Sunday, he was cited in a local publication as saying that if 5,300 public grade school teachers in the region remain unvaccinated when limited in-person sessions resume, they may still be barred from seeing their kids face to face.

“Personal views” and medical reasons were among the reasons offered by the professors for refusing to be inoculated, according to Jimenez.

He claimed that teachers must be vaccinated before handling physical classes, “because that is what the President (Rodrigo Duterte) approved when the Secretary (Leonor Briones) requested that we open schools for the limited face-to-face” learning.

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