Students who want to go abroad for studies from Punjab will now be prioritised in the Covid vaccination process in the 1844 group, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said on Monday. At a virtual Covid review meeting, the chief minister directed the Health and Medical Education departments to allow districts to use up to 10 per cent of the doses for the 1844 years age group for priority categories other than those approved at the state level. The move will help students going to countries where universities require them to be vaccinated. Besides students seeking to go abroad, caregivers of elderly persons and other urgent priority groups may be included in this list, an official statement quoting Singh said. Singh also asked the concerned departments to proactively vaccinate all the people in the categories already prioritised by the state government in this age group based on vaccine availability. This, he stressed, was essential to keep the risk of virus spread low as the restrictions are eased in the state, he stated.