As many as 33 students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya at Madikeri Kodagu district in Karnataka have tested positive for coronavirus. The school has been declared a containment zone after the students tested Covid-19 positive.
The school management made all the 270 students undergo Covid-19 tests. Around 33 of them tested positive on Wednesday. The school authorities have informed the government health officials that the cases were confirmed after the students were tested for Covid-19.
Most of the students who tested positive for Covid-19 are asymptomatic. Other students have been asked to isolate for a week. Karnataka government had reopened in-person classes for the students after a dip in daily Covid-19 cases.
On Monday, schools for students of classes 1-5 reopened in Karnataka with strict Covid-19 SOPs. The state government reopened schools for students of classes 6 to 8 from September 6 and for students of classes 9 to 12 from August 23.
While nine districts reported zero infections, 17 districts had cases in single digits. Three deaths were reported from Dakshina Kannada, two in Mysuru and one each in Hassan and Tumakuru, the bulletin said. Bagalkote, Bidar, Chamarajanagar, Gadag, Haveri, Kalaburagi, Koppal, Vijayapura and Yadgir reported zero infections and zero Covid-19 related deaths.
Amid the detection of the new COVID-19 variant AY.4, there are reports that the Karnataka government is mulling imposing fresh lockdown guidelines. The State Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Medical Education, Sudhakar K meet the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on October 26 and consult Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on the same.
This comes amid the rising cases of the new COVID-19 variant in parts of India, many people are concerned about the rise of the third wave of the pandemic, and the severity of the new variant.
The number of Delta AY.4.2 variant of coronavirus, which is spreading rapidly in some foreign countries, has increased to seven in Karnataka with three more people found to be infected with it in the city.
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Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, State Health and Family Welfare Commissioner D. Randeep said, “There are seven cases [of AY.4.2] in the State three in Bengaluru and four in different parts of the State.” Maintaining that the COVID-19 cases are under control in the State, Mr. Randeep said the government is making a negative RT-PCR test report, obtained 72 hours before arrival, mandatory for those coming from abroad to the state.
“The test report has to be uploaded on a portal called Air Suvidha. Other than that, there is no restrictions like quarantining people,” Mr. Randeep clarified. He further said the Centre and the State will initiate certain measures to check the super-spreader variant of COVID-19, which has spread in some foreign countries.
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