Pfizer vaccination drive begins in Region Two

Sep 05, 2021 News

Kaieteur News – The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination drive began Friday in Region Two at the Anna Regina Secondary School. First Lady Arya Ali, along with the Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, visited the school to observe the process and to commend parents for making the bold decision to have their children vaccinated against COVID-19.

First Lady Arya Ali comforting a student by holding her hand as she was about to be vaccinated.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand with a student after she received her vaccine Friday.

A student being registered by a doctor attached to the Ministry of Health before being administered the vaccine

According to a Ministry of Education press release, the vaccination drive Friday was at the Aurora Primary and Secondary Schools, and on tomorrow, Monday September 6, 2021, it will continue at the Johanna Cecelia Secondary and the Charity Secondary School. On Tuesday, September 7, vaccination will take place at the 8th of May Secondary School and at the Kabakaburi Primary School the following day.
Adolescents must be accompanied by their parent or guardian to be vaccinated, according to the Ministry’s release, which also noted that parents must possess a form of identification and children must present a document with proof of age such as a birth certificate. “We continue to encourage all Guyanese eligible to be vaccinated so that we can defeat COVID-19 together,” added the press release.
Meanwhile, the Ministry in another release reiterated that the re-opening of secondary schools for face-to-face teaching would be based on the national vaccination programme for adolescents across Guyana.
Based on the advice offered by the Ministry of Health, it was noted that it is better to allow students to be vaccinated and be fully inoculated before returning to the school’s physical environment.
For adolescents to be deemed fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine, they must receive two doses 21-28 days apart with an additional seven to 14 days after the second dose to be fully protected. This would mean that the different secondary schools would return to face-to-face instruction on different dates.
An example of this would be students of Queen’s College, St. Rose’s High School and the Bishops’ High School who were vaccinated on September 1, 2021. The students there were given September 28th as the date their second dose will be administered. Therefore, these schools will be reopened within seven to 14 days after the second dose is administered.
Each secondary school will be informed of their respective reopening dates, the Ministry’s release detailed. As it relates to the other levels, the plans that were previously announced stand without variation, it added.
The new school term starts tomorrow, 6th of September 2021, and where schools are not reopening for face-to-face instruction, the Ministry noted that they would be engaged online or otherwise. Parents, therefore, are encouraged to visit the Ministry of Education’s website to see the reopening plan for the respective schools.
According to the Ministry’s release, too “we encourage as many parents as possible to consent for their children aged 12 to 17 to receive the vaccine which will serve to protect them from the effects of COVID-19. We also encourage our parents and teachers who have not yet been vaccinated to get vaccinated so that we can all protect each other.”

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