Navi Mumbai: A total of 22 students, two teachers and peon schools at Mahad Taluka, Raigad tested Covid Positive on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, 17 students and two positive Covid teachers come from new English high schools in Vinhere Village in the Mahad Rural Area, five other Covid positive students came from Kes High School located in Mahad City.
Dr.
Nitin Bavdekar, Mahad Taluka Medical Health Officer (MHO) said, “When we start vaccination for 15-18 years with the age group by arranging camps at school, the mother of a ninth std boy in a new English high school in Vinhere Village Telling the school principal on Monday that his son had tested a positive Covid after testing in a private lab because he showed symptoms, and therefore he could not come for vaccination when he was in house isolation.
Therefore, on Tuesday, we did a test Antigen against 238 students in two classrooms from ninth-class Covid Positive students.
Other students are high-risk contacts because he regularly attended offline lectures at school.
From them, 17 students tested positive covid in the antigen test.
Even teaching staff and non-teaching The school was tested after two teachers and one peon tested Covid Positive with an antigen test.
All 20 Positive Covid people are in Isolas i house.
After monitoring their health, if necessary, their RT-PCR test will be done.
In the case of a positive RT-PCR test, the nasal swab sample patient will be collected at Alibuag civil hospital and sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune to sort the genome to ensure an omicron variant infection.
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Bhaskar Jagtap, Mho from Mahad City said,” Initially, one class 10 children from the Kesdom of Dagduseth Parte School Medium English City at Mahad City had tested Covid Positive by an antigen test on Tuesday.
Therefore, on Wednesday, we conducted an antigen test of 42 classmates.
Of them, four more tested positive covid.
The five students are in isolation of houses.
Until now their RT-PCR test is not needed.
Therefore, even their genome sequencing for the Omicron variant will not be done, because no one comes into contact with anyone who comes from an omicron risky variant or a high-risk foreign country.
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