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CHED: Over 2.4M students, 255K personnel in tertiary level vaccinated vs COVID-19

Published Dec 31, 2021 02:14 pm

The vaccination rate among tertiary students and higher education institution (HEI) personnel continued to scale up before the year 2021 ends, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said.

(Image courtesy of CHED)

CHED Chairman Popoy De Vera, in a statement issued Dec. 30, said that vaccination rates for students and personnel in the tertiary level got a boost this year.

Citing reports reports from HEIs all over the country as of Dec. 29, De Vera said that the vaccination rate for students has “increased” --- from 46 percent to now 59.7 percent.

This, he noted, was possible because of the “aggressive school-based vaccination drive” spearheaded by CHED in cooperation with the Department of Health (DOH), the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19, local government units (LGUs), and partner HEIs.

“To date, out of the reported number of tertiary students or 4,115,988, a total of 2,456,667 have been vaccinated,” De Vera said.

“From this number, 43.21 percent are fully vaccinated while 16.42 percent have at least received their first dose,” he added.

CHED said that some of the regions which have the most number of vaccinated students are Region 9 with 85.38 percent or 123,897 out of the total number of 145,113 students in the region; Region 3 with 81.12 percent or 321,946 out of 396,866 and CAR with 75.65 percent or 84,436 out of 111,617 students.

De Vera said that there was also a notable increase in the vaccination rate of HEI personnel.

Latest data gathered by CHED showed that 87.1 percent of HEI faculty and employees have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

“This is a significant increase from the 72 percent vaccination rate at the start of the aggressive vaccination campaign in October 2021,” De Vera said.

“This means that out of the 293,058 teaching and non-teaching personnel all over the country, a total of 255,229 HEI personnel have been vaccinated,” he added.

CHED said that some of the regions which have the most number of vaccinated HEI personnel are CAR with 95.24 percent or 7,940 out of the total 8,337 personnel; Region 3 with 94.08 percent or 24,831 out of 26,393; Region 2 with 93.78 percent or 8,604 out of 9,175 and Region 11 with 92.16p percent or 11,542 out of 12,524 HEI personnel.

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