New Delhi: After about 54 college students examined constructive for the coronavirus on Saturday Andhra University (AU) Engineering College in Visakhapatnam turned a block within the hostel into an isolation ward.
By Sunday, the quantity elevated to 102 in keeping with a report by The News Minute, which incorporates 96 are male college students, one is a feminine scholar and 5 are workers members. To curb additional unfold the first contacts of the scholars have knowledgeable and brought to a different isolation ward for remark.
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According to The New Indian Express report, as many as 1700 college students have been examined after a scholar from Vijayawada examined constructive. Andhra Medical College principal PV Sudhakar mentioned the unfold on the AU Engineering College campus is because of non-adherence to Covid Appropriate Behaviour by college students in keeping with the report.
Meanwhile, State Minister for Tourism MS Srinivasa Rao visited the University to take inventory of the scenario he mentioned that each one measures have been being taken to supply look after the scholars. He was quoted in The News Minute as saying, “The district authorities are taking all the mandatory measures to deal with those that have been contaminated with the virus. Isolation blocks have been organized and the required COVID-19 kits have been distributed. Parents needn’t fear.”
About 550 beds at King George Hospital and 650 beds on the Visakha Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS) have been made obtainable in case of any emergency in keeping with media stories.
As per the Department of Health and Family Welfare’s newest bulletin, 5,394 sufferers are underneath therapy for Covid-19 in Andhra Pradesh.
