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.
The vaccination rate among tertiary students and higher education institution personnel continued to scale up before the year 2021 ends, the Commission on Higher Education said.
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. “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.
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.Latest data gathered by CHED showed that 87.1 percent of HEI faculty and employees have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
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