Once the Health Ministry approves, secondary-level students from forms Two to Six will be returning to face-to-face classes when the next school term begins in January, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand said yesterday.
Manickchand said the students will be expected to return fully to physical all-day classes and that vaccination of the students against COVID-19 is not mandatory. “We can no longer wait on the people who one year later cannot make up your mind,” she said, before stressing that whether students decide to get vaccinated or not, they will not be turned away and that masks and sanitisation stations will be made available.
“If you have not been vaccinated, this is the time to go do it,” she also urged while stressing that the school doors will not be closed to any child.
