Teachers will join the list of frontline workers in Antigua and Barbuda who will be tested for covid-19.
This was revealed on Thursday morning during the post Cabinet Press Briefing.
This means that teachers, nurses, airport workers, military and police officers along with other frontline workers will in the coming weeks be tested in attempt to curb the pandemic and the recent rise in cases in the country.
The decision comes just a day after all educational institutions across Antigua and Barbuda were instructed to close with immediate effect following news just hours before that the Princess Margaret School had sent home students due to reports that a teacher at the school could possibly have tested positive for the virus.
Earlier this week, teachers at the Irene B Williams Secondary School, refused to return to classrooms due to reports of unsanitary conditions and possible exposure to the virus.
It is because of these actions that Information Minister Melford Nicholas mentioned earlier today that teachers will also be added to the priority list for receiving the vaccine.
“Given the recent fall out with some schools, with Princess Margaret being the most prominent, we are going to make the vaccines available but in the first instance we will admnister the test but when the vaccines become available they will be at the top of the pyramid in respect of the priority we set for that,” Nicholas shared.
There is not much detail on the avenue in which the government will take to begin testing teachers and other frontline workers or a date for when this will begin.
