Health Minister directs states to vaccinate school teachers before September 5
Lagatar24 Desk : In order to reduce Covid cases with the complete opening of schools from next month. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has urged states to vaccinate all school teachers before September 5.
The Health Minister said the Centre would make two crore Covid-19 vaccine doses available to the states and Union territories this month.
Taking to Twitter, Mandaviya said the vaccines are in addition to the Centre’s existing scheme of providing monthly doses to the states and Union territories.
The health minister also urged the states to get all the school teachers vaccinated on priority before September 5, when India celebrates Teachers’ Day.
The government decided to shut schools across the country in March last year ahead of a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19, classrooms shifted to virtual space.
While some states partially reopened schools for students of senior classes in a staggered manner, after observing protocol necessitated to check the spread of Covid-19 infection, around October last year, a complete shutdown was ordered in April this year when the devastating second wave of Covid-19 ravaged the country.
However, with Covid-19 cases going down, some states have begun resuming physical classrooms now even as concerns over vaccination against the virus and a possibility of a third wave looms large.
Health ministry data show that more than 58.07 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been provided to states and Union territories so far, while India’s cumulative vaccination coverage surpassed the 59-crore mark on Tuesday since the country launched the vaccination in January this year.
Meanwhile, India on Wednesday recorded 37,593 cases of Covid-19in the previous 24 hours, taking the total caseload to 32,512,366 while the active cases stood at 322,327.
