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‘We are not invincible’ – Teachers fearful ahead of reopening of schools More than 1,600 teachers have died after contracting the virus since the pandemic hit our shores - that s more than double the number of health care workers and police officers combined. Picture: Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News of their fear and anxiety around returning to the classroom.
In two weeks public schools will reopen for the first time under the adjusted level three lockdown restrictions and against the backdrop of a second wave of COVID infections which is significantly more intense than the first.
More than 1,600 teachers have died after contracting the virus since the pandemic hit our shores - that s more than double the number of health care workers and police officers combined.
Basic Education Department: Teachers will not be forced to be vaccinated As essential workers, educators will be included in phase two of South Africa’s vaccine roll-out. FILE: The University of Oxford and drug manufacturer AstraZeneca have developed a COVID-19 vaccine. Picture: AFP.
JOHANNESBURG - The Basic Education Department won’t be putting teachers under pressure to get the COVID vaccine.
As essential workers, educators will be included in phase two of South Africa’s vaccine roll-out.
Teachers have been particularly hard hit by COVID-19, with more than 1,600 succumbing to the virus in recent months.
But the department’s director general Mathanzima Mweli said the law didn t allow them to force teachers to be vaccinated.