The Min­istry of Health (MoH) is launch­ing its COVID-19 Vac­ci­na­tion Dri­ve in Sec­ondary Schools on Mon­day 21 Feb­ru­ary 2022, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion (MoE).

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Min­istry, the vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve will tar­get school per­son­nel, as well as par­ents and stu­dents ages 12 years and old­er.

Phase 1 of the project will run from Feb­ru­ary 21-25, 2022 and tar­gets thir­ty-five (35) schools across the coun­try, the Min­istry’s re­lease con­firmed.

The Min­istry says vac­ci­na­tion of stu­dents 12 to 17 years of age will oc­cur on­ly with the writ­ten per­mis­sion of the par­ent/guardian, who must be present at the time of vac­ci­na­tion.

Pre-reg­is­tra­tion forms for par­ents, staff and stu­dents are avail­able on the Min­istry of Health’s web­site at www.health.gov.tt, as well as at the iden­ti­fied schools.

The Min­istry says all who wish to be vac­ci­nat­ed must present their com­plet­ed forms and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion cards (where ap­plic­a­ble). Par­ents/guardians al­so must pro­vide birth cer­tifi­cates for stu­dents.

The Health Min­istry al­so notes that prin­ci­pals of the schools iden­ti­fied for Phase 1 of the School Vac­ci­na­tion Dri­ve are mak­ing the nec­es­sary arrange­ments for im­ple­men­ta­tion, and would be in con­tact with par­ents to pro­vide them with rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion.