The Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) has announced that teachers countrywide have seven days to get a COVID-19 jab failure to which they will face disciplinary action.
According to TSC, teachers have been accorded the priority as frontline workers yet so far the uptake of the vaccine by them is low. Only 33 per cent of teachers’ population have been fully vaccinated.
TSC CEO Nancy Macharia said, “We will be asking from our county directors and regional directors the number of teachers they have facilitated to get the vaccination and how many teachers are not vaccinated and for whatever reasons because MoH has assured us that there are enough vaccines.”
However, KUPPET has blamed the low uptake of vaccines among teachers on the timing of the vaccination schedule.
KUPPET branch secretary, Duncan Macharia said,
“Hii chanjo ilipoanza walimu walikuwa katika mstari wa mbele, lakini changamoto kubwa ni kwamba hii excercise inafanyika weekdays na kusema kweli siku hizo ndio siku ambazo walimu wako kazini…chanjo inaachwa kupeana saa kumi na walimu wanatoka kazi saa kumi na moja.”
TSC noted that against the target of 330,671 in the TSC payroll and about 150,000 others in private schools, 110,432 teachers have been fully vaccinated so far.
The commission intends to upscale the number of vaccinated teachers in seven days to beat the August 23 deadline.
On Monday, teachers lined up at Nakuru Level 5 Hospital to get vaccinated.
Since the pandemic began, 549 teachers have contracted COVID-19 with 81 fatalities recorded.
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