SAGUIARAN, Lanao del Sur (PIA)–Parents of learners particularly enrolled in Bagoingud Elementary School here said the coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 vaccines are safe and help give protection to their children, especially amid the advent of back-to-school.
Nairah Dalupang, a parent of two learners who are in their fourth and fifth grades respectively, stressed that she intended to get her kids vaccinated so that they might have immunity against the deadly virus.
“Naniniwala ako na mas ligtas ang mga bakunado kaysa hindi nabakunahan. Dapat alagaan natin at pabakunahan natin ang ating mga anak para protektado ang buong sambayanan sa COVID-19,” she said.
[I believe that those vaccinated are safer than those who are unvaccinated. We should take care and get our children vaccinated to make the community protected.]
For her part, Asliah Macararay who has a 9-year-old learner shared that she ensured that her son received his complete doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to be safeguarded from this period of health crisis.
“Naniniwala na safe ang bakuna at makakapagligtas sa anak sa pandemya. Pabakunahan niyo ang mga anak niyo para maligtas sa sakit na COVID-19,” she said.
[I believe that vaccines are safe and can save our children from this pandemic. Get your children vaccinated to save them from COVID-19.]
Manokie Utara, on the other hand, conveyed that she saw the return of the in-person classes as a high time to have her children vaccinated.
Being a mother of minor children, she saw the vaccines as the key in this time of the pandemic.
“[Pinabakunahan ko sila] para makaiwas lalo na sa COVID-19 na sakit. Hinihikayat ko sila [ang mga magulang] na pabakunahan ang mga anak nila kasi para naman iyan sa kalusugan ng mga anak nila,” said Utara.
[[I got them vaccinated] to avoid having COVID-19. I urge them [the parents] to get their children vaccinated because this is just for the sake of the health of their children.] (CRG/PIA-Lanao del Sur)
