Al Hosn app to show school vaccination rates

Parents in Abu Dhabi can now consult the vaccination rates of their children's schools via the Al Hosn app.

From December 30th Abu Dhabi parents can update their Alhosn App through the AppStore and GooglePlay, add their children to their personal accounts and access updated school information through the Abu Dhabi Blue Schools feature. 

To ensure student privacy, school and classroom vaccination insights will appear as anonymized percentages and numbers.

School-specific data will be updated every two weeks to allow oversight of children’s classrooms, macro bubbles and schools.

The Blue Schools Initiative has been implemented to foster transparency and encourage higher vaccination rates across school communities.

“Our commitment to the health and safety of Abu Dhabi’s student and school communities remains our primary priority,” said Amer Al Hammadi, ADEK Undersecretary.

“Our objective is to deliver maximum transparency; by integrating Abu Dhabi Blue Schools as a dedicated feature in the Alhosn App we are enabling parents to view accurate vaccination rate data across their children’s classrooms, macrobubbles and schools," he continued.

"We believe this honest, responsible and private utilization of data will afford increased visibility and encourage more parents to play their role in fostering health and safety across the emirate’s education ecosystem.”

ADEK is continuing its drive to return the Abu Dhabi education system’s return to normalcy.

“While vaccination of students below 16 years old remains optional, we are confident that parents will continue to foster health and safety of school communities with further vaccination uptake in the new year,” concluded Al Hammadi.

Launched in October 2021, the Abu Dhabi Blue Schools initiative encourages immunization of all students to increase protection against COVID-19 and its variants. The initiative offers Abu Dhabi schools a clear roadmap to normalcy by providing customized privileges based on student vaccination rates.

Since its launch, the initiative has helped drive increased vaccination uptake among Private and Charter School students, with 45 of schools already moving to the Yellow tier, 22 to the Green tier, and 2 schools to the Blue tier after achieving 85%+ vaccination rates for students attending schools physically.

To learn more about ADEK’s Blue Schools Initiative, school tiers and privileges, and the new feature on Alhosn App, visit the website.