Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday, August 25, said more than 2 crore additional COVID-19 vaccine doses are being made available to states this month. This is intended to vaccinate all school teachers on priority before Teachers' Day on September 5.

Mandaviya tweeted in Hindi, which roughly translated read as follows: ''In addition to the plan to provide vaccines to every state this month, over two crore vaccine doses are being made available. We have requested all states to try to vaccinate all school teachers on priority before Teachers' Day, which is celebrated on September 5.''

Schools across the country were closed in March last year ahead of a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of novel coronavirus infection. The Centre had allowed the reopening of schools as per the COVID-19 situation in October last year. While several states began partial reopening of schools, there was a complete closure again in April when an aggressive second wave of COVID-19 hit the country.

With an improvement in the COVID-19 situation again, several states have begun reopening schools now even as concerns have been expressed over the staff and teachers not being completely vaccinated.

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