Students appearing for board exams should be vaccinated on priority as they fall under the 15-17 year age group for which vaccine has been announced, demanded parents. With the board exams approaching, both teachers and parents are being cautious, especially in view of the Omicron variant and rising number of COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra. Teachers working for the board exams have also demanded that they be considered for booster dose on priority. 

Even as there is no demand to cancel the exam yet, everybody wants to be doubly cautious knowing that the new variant is more transmissible than the previous ones. The demand to vaccinate those appearing for board exams comes as the students will have no option to skip the exams.