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Students must get immunization records up to date before March deadline

For Immediate Release
January 19, 2016

GUELPH, Ontario – Public Health officials will be sending out letters to students who do not have up-to-date immunization records next month.

Public Health Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph is reminding families that in order to attend school in Ontario, every student must be fully immunized. Further, those immunizations must be on record with Public Health.

This February, the health agency will send out letters to all 17 year old students in Wellington, Dufferin and Guelph with incomplete immunization records. Students will have until March 7, 2016, to update their immunization records or they could be suspended from school.

Public Health is also warning that even if a student is fully immunized, all immunizations must be on record at the health agency in order for the student to stay in school.

According to Public Health, letters will be mailed directly to the students, “as 17 year olds are responsible for their own health records.” Students who receive a letter have several options for getting up to date, which are detailed on the Public Health website. 

Moving forward, the agency will send letters to parents of students under the age of 17 in order to explain what immunizations they need on record with Public Health.

You can get more information and report immunizations to Public Health at www.immunizewdg.ca or by calling 1-800-265-7293. Students who are not being immunized, for medical or other reasons, must complete an exemption form and submit it to Public Health.

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