Requests made to Health Ministry; no decision yetTeachers, staff vaccination to go ahead as plannedAdvisory Comm. yet to recommend; suitable jab undecidedOpening schools with less than 100 students in the pipelineBy Yumiko PereraSri Lanka would require nearly 750,000 vaccines if the country is looking at vaccinating schoolchildren in the GCE Ordinary Level (O/L) and Advanced Level (A/L) classes, The Sunday Morning learnt. According to Education Ministry Secretary Prof. Kapila Perera, although several requests have been made in this regard to the Health Ministry, no concrete decision has been made yet. For now, as per the Government’s plan, individuals above the age of 30 are the main priority group that would be inoculated. “For the A/L students, we would require nearly 400,000 vaccines, and for the O/L students, we would require nearly 350,000 vaccines, and approximately 750,000 vaccines would therefore be required in total,” he elaborated.

Source: The Nation July 03, 2021 16:52 UTC