Only three teachers on polling duty died of COVID-19, says U.P. govt.

Dismisses figure of 1,600 figure given by teacher union.

The Uttar Pradesh government has said that only three teachers died of COVID-19 while on duty during the recently-concluded panchayat poll dismissing the figure of claimed by teacher unions. Satya Prakash, under secretary of basic education department, Uttar Pradesh, said on Tuesday that so far District Magistrates had provided the State Election Commission a list of only three confirmed deaths of teachers. He also appealed people to not fall for “misleading” reports not based on facts. The State government’s statement stands in stark contrast to the , a union for primary teachers.