AMMAN — A campaign to vaccinate university staff and
students against
COVID-19 will start after the holiday, a higher education
official has announced.
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Spokesperson of Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific
Research Muhannad Al-Khatib said that the
vaccination campaign, which involves
public and private university members, will start soon after Eid Al-Fitter.
The number of the teaching staff stands at 11,394, and the
administrative staff at 18,350, totaling 29,677, according to the officials,
who added that the campaign will then shift to students — totaling 350,000 —
under a set of conditions. Khatib said priority will be given to the 6,000
students pursuing their clinical years in both medical and dentistry schools.
He stated that the priority criteria are in compliance with
what has been decided by officials who deemed that students who will be in
direct contact with the public should be the first to receive the jab. These
are followed by students whose majors requires their physical presence on
campus like physical education students. The last to be vaccinated are students
of humanities and similar fields.
It should be noted that the Ministry of Higher Education and
Scientific Research last Tuesday declared that it vaccinated all its employees
on ministry grounds with assistance provided by a special team from the
Ministry of Health.
The Ministry’s Secretary General Mamoun Al-Debie issued a
circular last Sunday requesting staff and the student body at all universities,
both public and private, to register for vaccination so that in-class education
for the upcoming academic year could be resumed. The campuses of the 15
universities in Jordan are furnished with vaccination booths as a measure to
ease the campaign’s impact, Khatib said.
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