Team Herald
PANJIM: Nearly 200 teaching and non-teaching staff from the State-run educational institutions of Tiswadi taluka, will assist the government in the COVID-19 vaccination drive that will roll out from January 16.
The Directorate of Education (DoE) has asked 94 educational institutions to deploy two, each, of their teaching or non-teaching staff, having adequate computer knowledge, for the COVID-19 vaccination drive in the State till January 31.
In a circular issued to the schools, Director DoE Santosh Amonkar has informed that orientation programme with regards to the vaccination drive will be held for the teachers and staffers on January 14 and 15; and that the same will be held in two batches for the day.
The heads of the Government and government-aided primary, middle, secondary and higher secondary schools have to depute two staff teaching or non-teaching for the drive.
“The government will be rolling out the vaccination drive to the frontline warriors to control the spread of COVID-19 infection within a couple of weeks. In this context, the medical officers of Tiswadi have requested for support staff at the vaccination centres in the taluka,” the circular mentioned.
In the first phase, nearly 19,000 health workers from the State will be vaccinated across eight centres- five government hospitals and three private. A total of 100 doses will be given at each centre per day, initially.
