More than a dozen schools in the province will be closed Tuesday as COVID-19 vaccination clinics take place for high school staff.
It comes as high school students across the province prepare to return to full-time in-person learning next month.
The province said vaccine clinics will take place Tuesday for staff from 17 schools throughout the province.
That includes the following 10 schools in the Anglophone South School District:
- Kennebecasis Valley High School
- Hampton High School
- Belleisle Regional High School
- Sussex Regional High School
- Rothesay High School
- Fundy High School
- St. Stephen High School
- Sir James Dunn Academy
- Campobello Island Consolidated School
- Grand Manan Community School
The province says 4,500 high school staff will be vaccinated by Saturday in anticipation of the return to full-time in-person learning scheduled to start on April 12.
Tomorrow – Tuesday, March 23- the following schools are closed due to staff vaccination clinics: BRHS, @sussex_regional, @HamptonHighSch, @KVhigh, @RothesayHigh, CICS, @GMCSTweet, @FundyFMHS, @SJDA2310 and SSHS.
— ASD-South (@ASD_South) March 22, 2021
All Saint John high schools and the COMPASS program will be closed Thursday for staff vaccination clinics.