Punjab CM orders COVID-19 vaccination of teachers, non-teaching staff and students
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday directed the health authorities to start COVID-19 vaccination of teachers, non-teaching staff, and students in the 18-45 age group from all schools and colleges from June 21, to enable educational institutions in the state to open safely.
Captain Amarinder Singh directed the department to ensure that all persons with co-morbidities as well as disabilities, and government employees, are vaccinated on priority.
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Staff in the hospitality industry, parlors, service outlets including shops, restaurants, gyms, etc should also be vaccinated at the earliest, he said, at the Covid review meeting.
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Judicial officers and Lawyers should also be prioritized so that normal court functioning can safely resume, directed Captain Amarinder while asking the health department to reach out proactively to nursing mothers, who have been clarified to be eligible for vaccination.
Expressing concern over the gender gap in vaccination, he directed the health experts to identified the reasons and rectify the situation.
Punjab Chief Minister also ordered ward-wise and village-wise campaigns in cities/towns/rural areas that saw higher positivity/ mortality, in order to prioritize them for COVID-19 vaccination.
Pointing out that Punjab was perhaps the only state in the country to have put in place a vaccination strategy for the 18-45 age group that prioritises the poor and the vulnerable, the Chief Minister expressed happiness that almost 1 lakh co-morbid youth, and 3.5 lakh young construction and other workers, had been vaccinated free of cost by the state government.
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