District schools affected by loss of teachers
The Serampore Girls High School and Rishra Vidyapith Higher Secondary School are now facing acute shortage of teachers.
The government on Wednesday said it will make available 2 crore extra vaccine doses to all the states to vaccinate school teachers and non-teaching staff on a priority basis. The extra doses of vaccines will be dispatched to the states from August 27 to 31, 2021.
The Union Health Minister announced that “In addition to the plan to provide vaccine to every state this month, more than 2 crore vaccine doses are being made available.
We have requested all the states to try to vaccinate all school teachers on priority before Teachers’ Day, which is celebrated on 5th September”.
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The states and UTs may use UDISE (Unified District Information System of Education) data and co-ordinate with State Education Departments, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Navodaya
Vidyalaya Sangathan to provide necessary fillip to this vaccination programme.
Earlier, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan chaired a high-level meeting with all States/UTs and reviewed the progress of the Covid-19 vaccination drive. The states were advised to focus on enhancing second dose coverage as well as immunization of school teachers and staff (both government and private).
Health Secretary advised the states to ensure compliance with Covid Appropriate Behaviour and other precautionary measures ahead of the upcoming festival season.
Citing the example of Kerala where a visible rise of cases has been registered over the past week post-Onam, he cautioned the states to undertake all possible public health measures to curb this ahead of the festive season.
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