Majority of HCMC parents want Covid vaccination for kids in primary school, kindergarten

A student receives a Covid-19 vaccine shot at the Luong The Vinh High School in HCMC's District 1, October 27, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Nguyen

Around 81 percent of parents of primary school students in HCMC want Covid-19 vaccination for their children, as do 60.5 percent of parents of kindergartners.

Trinh Duy Trong, head of the political ideology division at the city Department of Education and Training, announced the statistics on Thursday, saying authorities would continue to propagate the importance of vaccination to persuade more parents.

But unvaccinated students would face no restrictions in school, and authorities would take appropriate measures to safeguard them, he promised.

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