And while we wait for that cruise ship, schools are waiting to get the greenlight to reopen later this year. The final week of classes for this school year was switched to online after a few students and teachers caught the virus. But this isn't stopping the ministry from going back to in - class learning for the next school year. And now Minister Chebat is making another plea to teachers to get vaccinated:
Hon. Michel Chebat- Minister of Health and Wellness
"Teachers must get vaccinated. We know that children are carriers of this virus but they are more than likely, 95% of the time they are asymptomatic. The problem is that when they go home they run the risk of infecting the older members of their families. So we want a situation where teachers who are at the frontline, who are with these children, who interact everyday, to get vaccinated. I want to say this as well. The government is pushing hard to get vaccines for the 12 to 18 year old group so that we can focus on vaccinating them and we are hoping that by the time school reopens those vaccines will be in country and at least that age group would have gotten vaccinated before school reopens."
The please is made even more urgent now since stunts aged 12 and up will be able to get the Pfizer vaccine once it comes into the country.
