Australian teachers ask to be vaccinated as frontline workers amid Covid outbreaks
by Naaman Zhou from World news | The Guardian on (#5KXDY)
NSW union says the best way to ensure protection for children is to vaccinate their teachers
Teachers are asking the federal and state governments to vaccinate them as frontline workers, concerned thousands of students could return to school during continuing Covid outbreaks.
Schools are set to go back next Monday in New South Wales, even as Sydney remains in the middle of a Covid-19 outbreak and lockdown, and in Queensland, which is battling a smaller outbreak, with four new locally acquired cases on Monday. Western Australia and South Australia are set to return to school later in July.
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