Hassan: A total of 100 breastfeeding students from two universities in the Hassan district in Karnataka were tested positively Covid-19 on Friday.
They were found positively in the test carried out after 21 breastfeeding students from Kerala, who came to Hassan for the exam, found positive.
21 students from Kerala are among 48 who came to Hassan to appear in the exam held on Thursday.
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Twenty-four main contacts of 21 students have been quarantined and all have been given the first dose of the Covid vaccine.
Dr.
Vijay, Taluk Health Officer, Hassan, said the students came to Hassan to appear for additional examinations, which were held on July 26, in their college.
They arrived in the district between 17 and July 21.
Officials said that 100 students breastfeeded from two asymptomatic colleges and had been treated at the Covid Private Care Center in this Regency.
After students from Kerala tested a positive district health official conducting a test of more than 900 students in nine nursing colleges in the district on Friday.
100 nursing students in the positive Hassan carnataka test for Covid-19
