Final-year students to get vaccinated before entering college: Kerala Health Minister
The vaccines were available free of charge from government vaccination centres and at government-mandated rates from select private hospitals, students should get the second dose immediately, the minister said.
Kerala Minister Veena George has announced that the vaccination facilities will be made available for the final year students so that they can get inoculated before entering their respective colleges. The move comes after Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced the phased reopening of higher educational institutions from October 4.
The health minister Veena George, in a press release, stated that all final year students should take at least one dose of the COVID vaccine before entering college.
Meanwhile, Kerala Minister for Higher Education and Social Justice R Bindu, while speaking to reporters here, said that similar to last year, classes will be conducted either in two shifts or on alternate days.
She further said that half of the students of each class will be taught during each such shift or on alternate days. George, in the release, stated that those who were overdue for a second dose should immediately receive it and added that students should contact their nearest health or Asha worker for getting vaccinated at the earliest.
"The vaccines were available free of charge from government vaccination centres and at government-mandated rates from select private hospitals. Both COVISHIELD and COVAXIN were equally safe and effective in combating COVID-19," she added.
On September 7, 2021, the Chief Minister had announced that all higher education institutions, including technical, polytechnic and medical, will be allowed to function from October 4 for final year students. He, however, had said that reopening of the institutions will be subject to the condition that all final year students, faculty and staff receive at least the first dose of vaccination.
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