Over 1,600 elementary students suspended in Waterloo region for out-of-date vaccination records

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· Posted: Apr 02, 2025 9:24 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Public wellness officials successful Waterloo portion are urging radical to get vaccinated aft much than 1,600 simple students were suspended for out-of-date vaccination records connected Wednesday.

Nearly 9,000 suspension orders were issued backmost successful February arsenic a informing to students and parents to either get vaccinated oregon update wellness records.

"Vaccination is the champion mode to guarantee your household is protected against superior illness," said Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang, the Region of Waterloo's aesculapian serviceman of health, successful a merchandise Wednesday morning.

If your kid is 1 of the 1,624 students who has been suspended, a genitor indispensable publication a vaccine assignment with their wellness attraction supplier oregon nationalist health. If a vaccine assignment is already booked for a aboriginal date, parents tin pass nationalist wellness done an online signifier astatine regionofwaterlo.ca/vaccines. 

Vaccines 'more important present than ever' arsenic measles cases jump

Wang said immunizations are much important present than ever arsenic measles circulates successful the region.

Ontario has been experiencing a emergence successful cases of the vaccine-preventable microorganism successful caller weeks.

Tuesday, nationalist wellness officials confirmed 14 cases of measles successful Waterloo region, up from conscionable 3 cases past week. It's a fig that's expected to grow.

"We bash expect our cases proceed to emergence implicit the adjacent small while," said Dr. Rabia Bana, the associate aesculapian serviceman of wellness for the Region of Waterloo.

"We volition beryllium monitoring the concern intimately and continuing our lawsuit and interaction absorption efforts, arsenic good arsenic our immunization efforts to guarantee that we bounds the dispersed arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable wrong our community," she said. 

The bully news, Bana said, is Waterloo region's vaccination complaint is backmost to pre-pandemic levels, which means it's successful the 90 per cent range.