For now, the fate of face-to-face learning remains in limbo but that could change quite quickly if educators make what the government would call the responsible decision, and get vaccinated.
The Minister of Education says that Belize's teachers have already achieved their 70% mark on vaccination.
Reporter
"What percentage of teachers have been vaccinated to your knowledge?"
Hon. Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education
"The latest figure we have is we are up to 72% of teachers vaccinated. Very good news, we are moving in the right direction, so we are very hopeful and I can say we are working in collaboration with the Belize National Teachers Union, we worked very closely with them, we recently did a survey along with them of all our teachers to get figures about exactly where teachers were who were not getting vaccinated so that we can have a specific targeted program to work with them and give them the information they need to get comfortable about getting a vaccine. So, it's looking very good of the teachers who are not vaccinated which is good news. I think over 60% of them said that they plan to get vaccinated. So that's good, I think we will be, by the time end of August rolls around I think we will be well over 80% of our teachers vaccinated."
