600,000 teachers and school staff set to be vaccinated ahead of the start of term on June 1st

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Picture: ThaiPBS

 

An official at the education ministry said that the small committee of the CCSA had agreed to vaccinate 600,000 teachers and other school workers before the start of the school year.

 

The start of term has been delayed to June 1st because of the third wave of the pandemic.

 

This week the names of all concerned will be gathered ahead of the rollout that will be nationwide for all staff in state and private schools, said Suphat Jampathong. 

 

The rollout will begin first in Bangkok where the names of those due to be vaccinated are just about ready. 

 

The authorities will have two weeks to make good on their aim, reported ThaiPBS.

 

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[kotsak]

Can I assume foreign teachers as well?

 

[RotBenz8888]

Foreign teachers included?

 

Would be very stupid otherwise, but hardly surprising. 

[keith101]

18 days to do 600,000 vaccinations their dreaming again , that's an average of just over 33,000 per day 7 days a week .

[Phuketshrew]

The only safe choice is to further postpone the opening of schools until they have the situation under control and Covid-19 number start to decline. Back to online learning for a few months.

[clivebaxter]

14 minutes ago, keith101 said:

18 days to do 600,000 vaccinations their dreaming again , that's an average of just over 33,000 per day 7 days a week .

More than that as they won't be starting until next week by the look of it

[cyril sneer]

23 minutes ago, kotsak said:

Can I assume foreign teachers as well?

 

Sinovac for the foreign teachers, AZ for Thai

[tingtong]

Anyone think about that 1 shot a few days before school start will only give a false illusion of protection for the teachers?

 

 

[Brunolem]

Is that part of the original vaccination plan, or yesterday's replan, or plan B from outer space?

 

600,000 teachers in 2 weeks with no vaccines available right now...that's a challenge...bring em' on!

[dinsdale]

Voluntary? One would hope so. Being forced to have Sinovac would not be a good thing.

[placeholder]

16 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Voluntary? One would hope so. Being forced to have Sinovac would not be a good thing.

Because?

[dinsdale]

8 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Because?

Because people should not be forced to be jabbed and Sinovac is definitely not the the best vaccine.

[edwinchester]

How long does it take for a recipient to build a decent level of immunity after being vaccinated?

[ikke1959]

1 week or shorter before school opens will not work. Total effect will be reached 3 or 4 weeks weeks after the second jab.. So 6 weeks in total... today 13 May school opens 1 June is not 6 weeks I think. But of course I wrote already many times here to put teachers in the frontline, but who cares.. 

[RichardColeman]

600,000 teachers and school staff set to be vaccinated ahead of the start of term on June 1st

 

With what ? Has some magic 1.2 million jabs magically appeared ? 

[Preacher]

My non-government school regsitered me yesterday to get the vaccine. I understood it will be Sinovac.

[Petey11]

I'm sure they're making the vaccine roll out plan up as they go along. Every day these are going to be done, next day so many thousands here to get it. It's obvious they don't have a coherent plan in place which can only lead to a poorly executed program.

[Curmudgeon1]

Don't they need a vaccine to vaccinate?

[rbkk]

1 hour ago, Curmudgeon1 said:

Don't they need a vaccine to vaccinate?

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/thailand-expecting-3-5m-sinovac-vaccines-by-mays-end

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

An official at the education ministry said that the small committee of the CCSA had agreed to vaccinate 600,000 teachers and other school workers before the start of the school year.

What a novel idea... 

[cyril sneer]

3 hours ago, Preacher said:

My non-government school regsitered me yesterday to get the vaccine. I understood it will be Sinovac.

heard this from a friend working at a government school too (today)

 

sounds like they're trying to offload sinovac asap

 

sinovac is in the thai news every morning for being more dangerous and expensive, so it's far more likely to be used on people under 60 with no underlying health issues

[JeffersLos]

3 hours ago, Curmudgeon1 said:

Don't they need a vaccine to vaccinate?

Thai vaccination equals an amulet.

 

600,000 vaccination amulets to be handed out. 

[Preacher]

Sinovac doesn't seem to be unsafe. From reading some articles the problem is more that it is less effective in preventing than the Western vaccines. But even if not as effecitve inpreventing getting Covid, if you get it you do get milder complaints. That is why it is advisable to still get it. (And maybe get the seond shot with another vaccine).

 

Note that there is also another Chinese vaccine by Sinopharm. 

[SlavaT]

6 hours ago, tingtong said:

Anyone think about that 1 shot a few days before school start will only give a false illusion of protection for the teachers?

 

 

Yes, Sinovac requires 2 shots, 0 + 14 days to develop anti-bodies protection.

But this is what someone from the ministry of education have said, I wonder if it's already coordinated and agreed with other ministries and people in charge.

[Megasin1]

yes, its all just another pipe-dream/propaganda/sales-pitch as all the posters have pointed out, they would need to have already have had their first jab realistically. Also you shouldn't jab someone that is infected, something that doesn't seem to concern them and perhaps may explain why all those nurses got sick. You can surely rest assured that the Government has the populations health in safe hands, its all just a matter of how safe relative to their normal standards ???? On another note when you consider the Thai education system as a whole, taking a few months or a year out wouldn't really affect it much.

[Andycoops]

Dream on and repeat and repeat and repeat ...

[crazykopite]

More BS were talking 600,000+ in the next two weeks ????????????

[Deli]

Just keep the schools closed. As most of them are pretty useless, it doesn't make a big difference on the long run.

[John435]

A couple of points. Rushing the second dose may be counterproductive given a new study in the UK which suggests that a wait of 12 weeks more than triples the response.

 

Also, protecting teachers is great but what about all the other staff that help the school run, not to mention the children and their families?

[Daithi85]

5 minutes ago, John435 said:

A couple of points. Rushing the second dose may be counterproductive given a new study in the UK which suggests that a wait of 12 weeks more than triples the response.

 

Also, protecting teachers is great but what about all the other staff that help the school run, not to mention the children and their families?

They said it will be all school staff not just teachers.