Punjab Minister for School Education Murad Raas on Tuesday directed public and private schools to vaccinate the teaching and other staff against COVID-19 by August 22.
In a video message shared from his official Twitter account, minister Raas urged the schools’ staff to vaccinate themselves and submit their vaccination certificates at their respective institutions.
“We have established monitoring teams and they will visit schools randomly to check vaccination certificates after August 22,” he added.
The minister warned that if any staff member of any school was found unvaccinated, authorities will close the school.
“We will also take disciplinary action after finding out that any staff member is not vaccinated,” he added.
Earlier, the Punjab School Education Department had ordered teachers, administration and other staff of all public and private schools falling under the department’s authority, to get vaccinated against coronavirus by August 21.
Only vaccinated staffers would be allowed to enter the school premises after the deadline, Raas had said on August 4.
