If your child is a student at an Anglophone East school, and their immunization records aren’t up to date, expect to be notified.
Spokesperson Stephanie Patterson says with the recent Measles outbreak in the Saint John area, they are updating their vaccination files.
“We are currently in the process, all of our schools are going through their immunization records for all of their students and dividing them by up to date, not up to date and exempt. If your child files vaccination records are not current, they’ll be getting a call and a letter, and they’ll have until a certain date to get them up to date.”
Patterson says currently, students must present immunization records, “They must present the records at registration or a medical exemption form or a written objection.”
Provincial Education Minister Dominic Cardy has announced amendments which if approved would start in September 2021, stating written objection letters to vaccines will no longer be accepted.
New Brunswick’s Chief Medical Officer of Health says there were 12 confirmed cases of the Measles as of June 1st, all of them in the Saint John area.
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