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New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday said that more than two crore additional COVID-19 vaccine doses are being made available to states this month, and they have been asked to vaccinate all school teachers on a priority basis before Teachers’ Day on September 5. has been called for.
“In addition to the plan to make vaccines available to every state this month, more than 2 crore vaccine doses are being made available. We have requested all states to make efforts to vaccinate all school teachers on priority basis before Teachers’ Day, which is observed on September 5,” he said in a tweet in Hindi.
2 in addition to the scheme of dates to every state
We have requested all the states to try to vaccinate all school teachers on priority before Teachers’ Day, which is celebrated on 5th September.
— Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandviya) August 25, 2021
Schools were closed across the country in March last year to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus infection.
The Center had in October last year allowed the reopening of schools as per the COVID-19 situation. While many states began to partially reopen schools, there was a complete shutdown again in April when the country was hit by an aggressive second wave of COVID-19.
With the COVID-19 situation improving, several states have now started reopening schools, even raising concerns over staff and teachers not being fully vaccinated.
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