India will supply millions of additional Covid-19 vaccine doses to its states to try to inoculate all school teachers by early next month, the health minister said, as the country gradually resumes physical classes.

Reuters reports India approved its first Covid-19 vaccine for older children last week and is trying to urgently immunise all of its nearly 10 million school teachers. The country has been vaccinating its adults since the middle of January.

"We have requested all states to try to vaccinate all school teachers on priority before Teachers' Day, which is celebrated on Sept 5," Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Twitter.

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