COVID-19 Task Force spokesman Dr. Michelle Schlosser, however, admitted that the vaccination rollout for the five to 11 years old turned out to be the most challenging whenever parents refuse to have their children vaccinated.
"We are intensifying the school-based vaccination but the dilemma of our vaccination team is if parents refuse to have their children vaccinated. At the end of the day, no vaccination will happen if there is no consent from the parents,” Schlosser said in an interview with Davao City Disaster Radio.
She urged parents to instill the importance of wearing face masks to their children to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus disease.
Personnel from the Safety and Security Cluster, according to her, are deployed in the city's schools and are strictly implementing the wearing of face masks as they continue to heighten monitoring of the COVID-19 cases in the city.
Schlosser continuously appealed to the parents of five to 11 years old to have their children vaccinated since infection among this age group is inevitably wide spread because most kids are not keen on adhering to the minimum public health standards (MPHS).
"We are still emphasizing the wearing of face masks. If you can teach your children to wear their face masks every single time that they are in school. Have them vaccinated because we don't want them to suffer from the severity of the disease if they do get infected,” she said.
She also urged teaching and non-teaching personnel to make sure their learners or students wear face masks inside their classrooms and schools.
The city’s vaccination cluster , meanwhile, has scheduled a mobile vaccination rollout at some colleges and universities here on August 23, 24, and 25.