Teachers are now the most important risk group for the Ministry of Health in terms of vaccination against coronavirus, Chief Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine Igor Kuzin said in an interview with LIGA..

If 80% of teachers fail to get at least one coronavirus vaccine when entering the yellow zone, students will be transferred to distance learning. What to do in such a situation for parents who have to go to work at the same time? According to Kuzin, parents should "

“Parents can really bring up the issue of vaccinating teachers because it’s a matter of the safety of their children.. But there must be a balance. This is not about what parents should control, because any educator can refuse to disclose their vaccination status.. The point is that parents should motivate, ”says Kuzin.

The chief sanitary doctor stressed that now there is still time for teachers to be vaccinated.

“There is a choice, mobile teams work, information telephone lines are there to explain.

With educators, work is done separately to explain even each mechanism of action of the vaccine or the potential benefits that a person will receive from the vaccine, ”he says..

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However, according to Kuzin, the statistics of vaccinated teachers may be inaccurate: they are formed separately by the management of each school, because during vaccination in hospitals it is not always noted that a person is a teacher.