Delhi government schoolteachers who have been working as frontline workers during the pandemic must be vaccinated immediately, the directorate of education (DoE) has said.

In a letter to district education officers and school principals, DoE director Udit Prakash Rai has asked that vaccination be facilitated for the teachers at the earliest.

“Government schoolteachers have been spearheading the Covid response of the Delhi government. Teachers have been deployed on several fronts to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Teachers have gone beyond the call of duty in management of containment zones, airports, vaccination drives, ration distribution, oxygen management, etc,” the letter stated.

“The teachers of the DoE who are the frontline workers for the Delhi government have led the efforts of the government in containing the infection and breaking the transmission. They have also spared no efforts in managing the second wave of the Covid-19 crisis which unfolded in the months of April and May,” it added.

Rai has pointed out that it is imperative that the DoE ensures that all government schoolteachers get vaccinated immediately.

The DoE directed that “all necessary steps towards vaccination of all the government schoolteachers” are taken at the earliest.