Manila will implement safety measures to ensure that students are protected from COVID-19 when they return to classes starting on Monday.
Thirty-seven out of 107 schools in Manila can already conduct full face-to-face classes, Mayor Honey Lacuna said on Friday.
Minimum health protocols such as wearing of masks and frequent hand washing will be enforced. Satellite vaccination sites will also be set up in schools, Lacuna said.
“We will ask teachers if they have ample time to… ask students if they are vaccinated,” Lacuna added.
“It’s also for us to encourage students to tell their parents to have them vaccinated. We observed parents are often more worried compared to their kids,” she said.
Contact exercises during physical education classes will also continue, she said.
“We are not prohibiting it for adults, so we cannot ban it for children,” she said.
Lacuna urged the parents to refrain from waiting outside campuses to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission.
