85 per cent of Kurnool school staff vaccinated against COVID-19 before reopening

KURNOOL: As many as 85 per cent of the 17,559 teaching and non-teaching staff of both government and private schools have received both doses of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine in the district, even as schools are set to reopen after 18 months on Monday.

While 11,514 government school employees have been totally inoculated, both the doses were administered to 6,045 private staff. 

Officials of the education department in the district have despatched 4.71 lakh Jagananna Vidya Kanuka (JVK) kits, comprising books, school apparels and accessories, among 3,016 government schools.

The kits will be distributed to students in grade one to ten from Monday, district educational officer M Sai Ram said.

The JVK scheme is meant to support poor students enrolled in government-run schools. As many as 6,77,122 students are studying in 4,389 schools.