Private daycare associations are calling on the Quebec government to prioritize the vaccination of their staff and warn parents of the risk of service breakdown as long as the employees are not vaccinated.
The Association of Private Day Nurseries of Quebec (AGPQ) and the Association of Non-Subsidized Day Nurseries (AGNSI) are asking the provincial government “to grant daycare staff special recognition and to offer them the vaccination against COVID-19 in order to maintain services.”The two associations fear the effects of the third wave on the workforce.“With the variants, we are starting to have a lot of concerns about the staff,” said Samir Alahmad, president of the AGPQ, to The Canadian Press.