New Delhi: With over 92 per cent teaching staff and over 86 per cent non-teaching staff in schools across the country have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan stressed the need for “restoring normalcy and vibrancy” in the educational institutions.
The Minister’s statement came following a meeting in New Delhi to review the vaccination status of teaching and non-teaching staff in schools and skill centres. Minister of State for Skill Development Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Minister of State for Education Rajkumar Ranjan Singh also attended the meeting.
Schools have reopened in as many as 22 states and union territories as the COVID-19 infection rate has come down across the country, the government said.
“Pradhan stressed upon the need to restore normalcy and vibrancy in the educational institutions in wake of rapid vaccination at scale happening in the country. As on date, a majority of states have already opened the schools for all the classes. Over 92% of teaching staff have been vaccinated. In the institutions under the Central Government, over 96 per cent of teaching staff have been vaccinated,” a Ministry of Education statement was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.
“While not all of them are fully vaccinated, we can say with certainty that the majority of teachers and non-teaching staff have received two doses,” an official was quoted as saying by the national daily.
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