J-K begins administering COVID-19 vaccines to children
Zee News
8.33 lakh children are to be vaccinated in the UT and per day 1.19 vaccination doses will be given to children, around 1600 vaccination sites are designated in various schools for vaccination centres.
Kashmir: Due to the COVID pandemic it’s the education sector that has suffered most across the globe. And in Jammu Kashmir too schools had remained shut for the last three years now. Students who were in beelines today at most of the vaccination centres in Kashmir were very excited.
They are hopeful that this process will not only save them from this pandemic but also believe that after the vaccination process gets complete their schools will reopen and they can focus on their studies as they have already suffered a lot.
Mehak Iqbal ( a class 11th student) said, "it’s very important to get vaccinated and for the education system it’s very good because from past two years we have been affected we are the victim of this, so I appeal to all the students to come forward and get vaccinated. It’s going to help you, we have suffered a lot, and this vaccination will help us we will be practically in classrooms again. And I got vaccinated as I feel it’s a very good thing and going to help me out."