Coimbatore: Seventeen Students of KG College of Nursing in Saravanampatti in this city tested Covid Positive on Thursday, taking the total cases on campus 62 since September 7 have instructed university administration not to leave campus as those who tested negative needs to undergo repeated testing .
Of the 740 Hostellers studied various courses in college, around 300 coming from Kerala.
They returned to college before August 30.
Although students have produced a negative RT-PCR certificate taken within 72 hours before the start of the trip to Coimbatore, some of them change positive after reaching here.
“They can be infected after they are tested or on the way to the hostel.
The students should be ideally quarantined, but they are allowed to get along with other students in the hostel, allowing infections to spread rapidly.
Four students began to show symptoms from September 4th.
They were finally tested Positive three days later, “said a company official coimbatore corporation.
“Students are crammed into dormitory rooms.
Six to seven students accommodated in room 160 square feet which ideally can accommodate three students.
If they follow the norms, infections may not spread to many students in a short time.” “The corporation has imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 in College to say standard operating procedures.
It is better to be slapped if the norm is rejected again, “the official said.
“All students in college have been tested.
While the college has been closed, the administration has been asked to keep all students in the place.
Medical camps are carried out in College from Monday.
Students who test negative will be tested again.
All students have received at least one The vaccine dose and some have received the second dose.
Four Kerala students who are the first people to test positively and four local students tested positive then go home, “he added.