Education Ministry says more than 22,000 students between the ages of 12 to 17 have now been fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Ministry said in its latest vaccination update that a total of 35,989 students from 218 schools in the country have now received the first dose of the COVID vaccine.
It said that out of this 22,093 students have now received the second dose of the vaccine and that this includes students from 141 schools in the country.
The government had kicked off its COVID vaccination program for the students last month and had said that all the students between the ages of 12 and 17 years are eligible to receive the vaccine.
The Education Ministry had said that the program had started in schools across the country and that around 35,000 students are eligible to receive the vaccine.
Authorities in the Maldives are administering the US-manufactured Pfizer vaccine in its student vaccination program.
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih had recently announced that the state has successfully acquired enough doses of the Pfizer vaccine to immunize all children in the Maldives between the ages of 12 and 17 years
