Vaccination card is not a prerequisite for student registration/ No decision has been made to inject the third dose of corona vaccine to students.

Sadegh Satarifard, vice president of physical education and health of the Ministry of Education, in an interview with the education reporter of Fars news agency about the enrollment of students in schools and the issue of vaccination, stated: students aged 12 to 18 are not required to be vaccinated, but we recommend that they do so.

Stating that the Ministry of Health has not yet taken a decision to inject the third dose of the corona vaccine to students, he added: The vaccination is for students aged 12 to 18, and students who have turned 12 this year are advised to get vaccinated.

The spokesperson of the Ministry of Education stated: We do not have a mandatory requirement to receive a vaccination card or a precondition for enrolling students in schools.

Emphasizing that vaccination is not a prerequisite for registration, Satarifard said: Registration will be done as in previous years.

He said about the vaccine injection statistics: 92% of the students injected the first dose and 80% the second dose; Also, 95% of educators injected the first dose, 90% of the second dose, and 51% of the educators injected the third dose.

The vice president of physical education and health of the Ministry of Education continued: Our suggestion to educators is that if 6 months have passed since the injection of the third dose, they should also inject the fourth reminder dose, and of course that group did not take the third dose, we suggest injecting the third dose. do

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