THE COMMISSION on Higher Education has allowed postgraduate, undergraduate interns, clinical clerks, and fourth year medicine and nursing students to be Covid19 vaccinators.

CHED Chairman Prospero De Vera III said that the move aims to speed up the government’s vaccination program.

“The government is now fast-tracking the vaccination rollout as more Covid19 vaccines arrive in the country. For the second time, the country breached the 1 million daily target for vaccination. As we increase the number of vaccination sites and increase daily targets, these additional vaccinators and support staff are critical to achieve herd immunity in the next two months,” he said.

The Department of Health and CHED released the interim guidelines on the deployment of volunteers.

“Their volunteer work and completed number of hours will be credited in their internship and will be certified by the head of the vaccination team in the particular vaccination site where they rendered their services,” De Vera said.

Since October, the CHED has pushed for school-based vaccination. So far, 61 Higher Education Institutions have been designated as immunization centers.