On October 28, 2021, Dr. Kieran Moore, the Chief Medical Officer
of Health stated that the province will not require students to be
vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend school and will not add the
vaccine to its list of mandatory immunizations, which includes
illnesses such as polio and measles.
Dr. Moore indicated that the vaccine will not be integrated into
the Immunization of School Pupils Act "at
present".
"We have to look at the trends and the ongoing threat of
this virus. If it persists season after season and is an ongoing
threat, at that point we would review with government the
integration of COVID vaccination status into the (law). At present
our goal was to improve outbreak management within the school
settings and to enable local public health agencies to have the
data they need at their fingertips to be able to respond to
outbreaks."