Health Bureau (SSM) Director Alvis Lo Iek Long said yesterday that he “doesn’t think” that the education authorities will implement the so-called jab-or-test measure for schoolchildren.
Lo made the remarks while speaking to reporters at the Clementina Leitão Ho Brito Theatre run by Caritas Macau in Toi San district after attending yesterday’s opening ceremony of a two-day seminar, which ends today, hosted by Caritas to celebrate its 70th anniversary.
Since late last month, higher education students, teachers and all other staff members, as well as non-tertiary education teachers and all other staff members, who have not been inoculated against the novel coronavirus have been required to be tested for COVID-19 every seven days.
According to the jab-or-test measure for the education sector, which started on October 25, higher education students, teachers and all other staff members, as well as non-tertiary education teachers and all other staff members, must either display a vaccination record confirming that they have received at least one COVID-19 jab, or present an NAT certificate confirming a negative COVID-19 result valid for seven days
The Macau government lowered the minimum age for Sinopharm jabs from 12 to 3 yesterday.
When asked by reporter yesterday whether the government would possibly extend the jab-or-test measure to schoolchildren – i.e., they cannot go to school unless having been inoculated against the novel coronavirus or having been tested for COVID-19 every seven days, Lo said, “[The government] should not impose such a restriction that bars unjabbed schoolchildren from going to school. I don’t think such a measure will be implemented.”
Health Bureau (SSM) Director Alvis Lo Iek Long talks to reporters at Caritas Macau’s Clementina Leitão Ho Brito Theatre in Toi San district yesterday. Photo courtesy of TDM
