New York: Vaccinating teachers against covid is a critical step towards putting children’s education around the globe back on track, UNICEF said on Tuesday.
“Governments must prioritize teachers to receive the covid vaccine, once frontline health personnel and high-risk populations are vaccinated. This will help protect teachers from the virus, allow them to teach in person and ultimately keep schools open,” UNICEF executive director Henrietta H. Fore tweeted.
“At their peak in late April 2020, nationwide school closures disrupted the learning of almost 90% of students worldwide. While that number has dropped since, there continues to be an unsupported assumption that closing schools may slow the spread of the disease, despite increasing evidence that schools are not a main driver of community transmission,” Unicef said in a statement.