Over 160 students of Andhra college test COVID-19 positive
As many as 163 students of a personal college in Rajamahendravaram metropolis in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh had been discovered contaminated with the coronavirus on Tuesday, authorities stated. Incidentally, East Godavari right this moment crossed the 1.25 lakh mark in complete COVID-19 instances, the one district within the
state that witnessed such virulent unfold of the virus with a number of ‘super-spreader’ occasions within the final one 12 months.
A scholar carried the virus from his household and contaminated his fellow students within the college, a senior official of the Medical and Health Department stated.
All had been Intermediate students within the personal college and have been instantly positioned below quarantine throughout the college, the official stated.
“We have isolated the infected students and placed them in quarantine in special rooms in the college. They are being monitored by doctors and other medical staff,” he added.
There had been about 400 students in all within the college and RT-PCR checks had been being performed on all of them to examine if any others had been contaminated.
The space in Rajamahendravaram has been declared as a containment zone and needed measures had been put in place to examine the unfold of the contagion.
Deputy Chief Minister (Health) A Okay Okay Srinivas (Nani) reviewed the scenario with Health Department Principal Secretary Anil Kumar Singhal, Commissioner Bhaskar Katamaneni and different officers and directed them to fully sanitise the college and different areas the place the coronavirus unfold.
He stated steps had been being taken to conduct RT-PCR checks in different instructional establishments in East Godavari district.
Srinivas stated 35 containment zones had been arrange within the district as COVID-19 instances had been detected in Kakinada, Mummidivaram, Ramachandrapuram moreover Rajamahendravaram.
