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15,000 Students In Ottawa Face Suspension In 2025 If They Don’t Get Their Vaccinations Up To Date
https://winepressnews.com/2024/09/17/15000-students-in-ottawa-face-suspension-in-2025-if-they-dont-get-their-vaccinations-up-to-date/ Some 15,000 students in Ottawa could face suspension in early 2025 unless they get their vaccinations up to date, the city’s public health agency warns.
After pausing suspensions for the past two years, Ottawa Public Health (OPH) said Monday in a report to the Ottawa Board of Health that they will resume.
Students born in 2007 and 2017 whose immunization records are incomplete and who aren’t exempt have until the new year to update them, or face suspension of up to 20 days.
Medical Officer of Health Dr. Vera Etches said the city’s playing “catch-up” after pausing the program during the pandemic.
“Ottawa Public Health staff were doing [COVID-19] contact tracing and outbreak management and we didn’t do the regular mailing out of letters to remind parents and guardians that your child has a vaccine record that’s missing,” she said.