The Punjab governmen
t on Monday decided to ban the entry of all government and private schools’ teaching and non-teaching staff to the educational institu
tes from Aug 1 who are not 100% vaccinated.
The District Education Officers have been assigned the task to provide the vaccination certificates of the educational institutes’ staff to the education department.
It has been decided to take action against unvaccinated teaching and non-teaching staff. From Aug 1, the teachers and other staff of educational institutes who are not inoculated would b
e denied entry to the school buildings.
The staff both academic and non-academic have been advised to be 100% inoculated.
District Education Authority, Lahore CEO Pervaiz Akhtar issued the directives. The DEOs would provide vaccination certificates to the DEA, Lahore. In the first phase, the DEOs would provide Covid-19 vaccine certificates of teaching and non-teaching staff till July 13.
Mr Pervaiz said that the vaccination certificates of private schools’ staff would also be checked and no leniency would be shown in this regard.
On the other hand, Punjab Chief Se
cretary Jawad Rafiq Malik demanded 100% vaccination certificate from all se
cretaries and commissioners. He asked the se
cretaries to monitor the vaccination campaign personally.
Sources revealed that the chief se
cretary directed to take action against those officials who were refusing to get Covid-19 vaccin
e jabs.
The S&G Department has issued a directive in this regard.
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