Thiruvananthapuram: Approaching 73% of students who qualified to receive vaccines in government and assisted schools have received their first dose from the Covid vaccine on Monday night.
There were 13.09 students of the beautiful lakh aged at 4,800 schools and schools assisted in all states.
Portal Sampoorna, until 4:30 a.m.
on Monday, shows the number of students who have been vaccinated as 9.53 lakh, which is 72.8% of the total students who qualify.
As 1.13 students lakh (8.6%) have not received vaccines and 13,263.
Students (1%) cannot receive vaccines because of Covid infection.
The department, in relation to the Ministry of Health, has established a covid vaccination center in schools that have 500-plus students.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Public Education held a high-level meeting on January 27 to discuss the efficiency and schedule of online classes and evaluation of Covid vaccination drives at school.
TNN.