Students here will be vaccinated against corona from today in Sarlahi. The school will be open from today till February 4 to give the second dose to the students in the age group of 12 to 17 years.
A meeting of the District Corona Crisis Management Committee (DCCMC) has decided to open the school for five days to administer the second dose of modern vaccine to the students, said Chief District Officer Thaneshwor Gautam. According to him, the school will be closed till mid- february.
More than one lakh students in the district have been given the first dose of the moderna vaccine. Chief of the District Public Health Office, Dr. Nawal Kishor Jha, told RSS that all the municipalities will be vaccinated.
According to Prajia Gautam, the DCCMC meeting has decided not to conduct monitoring, public meeting, procession, gathering, and crowd gathering programs until some other arrangement is made as some private schools are still teaching.
There are 88,009 students in the age group of 12 to 17 in the community schools of the district, said Sunil Kushwaha, Acting Chief of Education Development and Coordination Unit, Sarlahi. According to him, a total of 675 schools including community, institutional, religious and other schools of the district have filled up the form for vaccination of their students and they will be vaccinated accordingly.
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