Chikkamagaluru : As many as 59 students and 10 teaching and non-teaching staff of a government residential school in Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka have tested positive for Covid-19, however, all are asymptomatic, according to a top district official.
The development comes in the wake of the state government’s fresh approach to classify any area as a cluster with three or more cases of the coronavirus. Earlier, a cluster was defined with at least 10 active Covid cases.
Chikkamagaluru Deputy Commissioner KN Ramesh said there is no need to panic as medical teams have been deputed and an ambulance has been kept on standby.
The school, which has 450 resident students enrolled, has been sealed and sanitised. The infected students and staff have been quarantined in a part of the hostel, he added.
He said all students, teachers and non-teaching staff have been tested for Covid-19 and precautionary measures taken.
The southern parts of Karnataka have been sporadically reporting Covid-19 cases in educational institutions since mid-November. Schools in the state were reopened in the first week of November after a 19-month gap due to the pandaemic outbreak.
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