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Date Published: 14/12/2021
ARCHIVED - Families in Alicante given just one day to authorise vaccination of children
Valencia region's Ministry of Health sent letters to schools requesting signed authorisation for immunisation from Wednesday December 15
The Valencia Region will begin vaccinating children between the ages of five and 11 on Wednesday December 15, which will be carried out by health teams in individual schools.
For this reason, the Regional Ministry of Health and Education sent a letter and an informative circular to all schools on Monday December 13 to inform them of the procedure and the conditions necessary to start the vaccination.
As part of the procedure, schools must send parents and legal guardians of students the information sheet, a questionnaire with relevant information for vaccination, as well as an authorisation document which must be signed in order to immunise minors in the school environment.
However, the letter stated that schools must inform families "as a matter of urgency" on Monday, advising that educational centres must have the documentation signed by the families by this morning, Tuesday December 14.
In other words, families have been given only have one day to authorise child vaccination, otherwise the children will not be able to get jabbed.
Once the information has been collected from all the pupils at individual schools, the person responsible for the implementation of Covid measures must inform the Education Centres Commission of exactly how many children will be immunised.
The regional government received 150,000 paediatric doses of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday, and the first phase of the vaccine roll-out for kids will take place between December 15 and 22, focusing firstly on pupils aged five to 11 in special education schools and immunocompromised children.
The vaccination of minors will then follow age order, as has been done with the general population, and children aged 11, 10 and nine will be the first to receive their jabs until all 330,000 children – who are given guardian authorisation – have been immunised.
In the same letter to schools and families, the health ministry stressed the "importance of protecting children" not only from the "acute phase of the disease", but also from "possible future conditions and persistent Covid syndrome".
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