Hubballi: Although many schools and colleges in urban centers of the country have turned into episentres for Covid clusters last month, educational institutions in villages seem to be safer for students.
However, this no longer looked like as many as 33 students in three schools in Dharwad Village tested positive for the novel Coronavirus in the past week, leaving both teachers and parents worry.
Rural Block Education Officers Hubballi Ashok Sinda told TII that 22 students, and a teacher, in Middle School in Kusugal had been tested positive for Covid-19 after random testing procedures.
“On Tuesday, we tested 220 grade ninth and ten students, including 22 positively tested.
We have sealed schools until the coming Monday, and the campus is being disanitized.
All students who have contracted Covid-19 are asymptomatic, and the conditions are stable, “Ashok said.
Beo said that Kusugal’s school was the third in the Hubballi countryside had been sealed in the past week.
“In government secondary schools in Tarihal, 10 students tested positive Covid, while three students in high school in Gopankoppa were confirmed infected with Covid.
Workers from the Ministry of Health often visit students who have tested positive, and quarantined at home, and monitor their condition,” added Ashok.
He said that the public teaching department was testing students and school staff randomly on the one hand, while drives to vaccinate them in 15 to 18 age groups were being intensified on the other side.
“From 7,611 students who qualified to receive vaccinations in my jurisdiction, we have been vaccinated 7,239, and will manage Jab to students left in the next few days,” Beo said.
Ashok stressed that all preventive measures were being taken in schools in the villages.