International students at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) can get vaccinated against COVID-19 at the City Polyclinic No. 76 as of Aug. 25, following the adoption of the decision at the end of July.
After being invited to sign up in advance, Polytechnic University students who wanted to get vaccinated have drawn over 160 applications.
Key Takeaways:
- International students at Polytechnic University have started to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Aug. 25.
- The City Polyclinic No. 76 has provided an advisory for students who want to get vaccinated.
- International students received vaccination to protect themselves and to be able to attend in-person classes at SPbPU.
To assist the students in their vaccination, the Polyclinic has set dedicated time slots for Polytechnic University international students: 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. for the morning schedule and 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. for the evening schedule.
The clinic has also advised those who want to get vaccinated to come in groups with an even number. If some students come to the clinic by themselves, they will be advised to wait for a partner.
Some SPbPU students showed up alone, asked to fill out the forms required, and waited for their turn to see a therapist. One of the Colombian students who went to the clinic was Jose Alfredo Collazos Roso, who wanted to get vaccinated to attend graduate school after finishing a master’s degree in IFNiT, space physics.
While vaccine shot hesitancy could be the case for some students, Yao Yifeng, a third-year IMM&T student from China, commended the institution’s provision of vaccinations against COVID-19 for its students.
Other students said they wanted to get vaccinated to protect themselves against the virus and those they live with at the dormitory, and also to attend in-person classes.
It can be recalled that Pavel Shevtsov, deputy head of the Russian Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation, said at an online conference in July that Russia’s higher education institutions plan to admit international students who have received any available COVID-19 vaccine.
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