Health Times reporter Qiu Yue
On February 13, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission issued a "Fact Sheet" saying that the Internet and individual self-media platforms circulated that some schools and kindergartens in Beijing forced students to vaccinate, and there was a misreading of the relevant work.
The Beijing Municipal Education Commission said on the 13th that in the vaccination work, the Municipal Education Commission has always adhered to the need for scientific rigor, safety norms, and smooth and orderly progress under the guidance and suggestions of the disease control department; always put the child's life safety and physical health first, in accordance with the basic principles of knowledge, consent and voluntariness; oppose compulsory vaccination or vaccination as a precondition for children to participate in normal education and teaching activities in schools and kindergartens, including not allowing the proposal that "unvaccinated children cannot enter school". Unvaccinated children submit a nucleic acid test certificate every 48 hours, otherwise they will not be admitted to school" and other requirements.
"Two days ago, the kindergarten just issued a notice saying that children who enter the kindergarten need to provide two vaccination certificates for the new crown vaccine. However, today (13th) the Education Committee officially responded to this question, and we are still waiting for a new notice from the kindergarten. Ms. Yang He (pseudonym) in Beijing's Haidian District has a kindergarten and is about to start school, but the child has not yet been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Yang He said that according to the previous notice of the kindergarten, if the child wants to enroll, he needs to submit a diagnosis from the top three hospitals to prove that the child is allergic or unsuitable for vaccination due to the disease. "We originally did not plan to send the kindergarten in February, wait until March to see, now the Education Commission has issued a document, the school policy should change."
Courtesy of respondents.
The kindergarten where Yang He's child is located is not an isolated case, and the kindergarten where Ms. Liu's child is located in Chaoyang District has also issued a similar notice before.
On February 13, Ms. Liu consulted the kindergarten again, whether the children who have not completed the full vaccination can enter the kindergarten normally. "The class teacher told me to wait until the next day to confirm before replying. In addition, the class teacher suggested that we make an appointment for the child to be vaccinated as soon as possible and consider sending it to the kindergarten in March. ”
Health Times reporter contacted the person in charge of the kindergarten, the person in charge said that according to the regulations, children who have not completed the whole process of vaccination can be sent to the kindergarten after preparing health monitoring, itinerary code and other related information, but we, as the kindergarten and teacher, still recommend that parents take their children to be vaccinated as soon as possible, vaccination is beneficial to everyone, early vaccination, early benefit, according to the principle of no special contraindications, our big friends and children should complete vaccination as soon as possible, and build a social immunity barrier. I also hope that parents will pay attention to the new crown vaccination work of their children.
Medical staff vaccinate children, photo from Xinhua News Agency.
In addition, the Health Times reporter also contacted students and parents of young children in Dongcheng, Fengtai, Daxing, Tongzhou and other districts, except for the above two parents, the rest of the parents said that the school or kindergarten did not require the new crown vaccine.
Mr. Jin of Fengtai District told the Health Times reporter, "The park did not say that there was no vaccination and did not allow admission to the kindergarten, but most of the children have been vaccinated, the teacher has done many rounds of work, and the class group has repeatedly prompted the child to be vaccinated as soon as possible." ”
According to the press conference of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held on December 20, 2021, Wang Huaqing, chief expert of the immunization program of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the number of children aged 3 to 11 in mainland China has exceeded 140 million. Judging from the results of the monitoring, the adverse reactions were generally stable and there were no abnormalities.