Bhubaneswar: At least 53 secondary school students in the Sundargarh district and 31 Vimsar medical students, Burla, in the Sambalpur district were tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday.
While medical students have suggested housing isolation, the authorities have decided to close high school for a week.
Detection Some cases from educational institutions come when the government feels restarting offline teaching for class I to V, increasing awareness among health experts.
Infected school students come from the St Mary Girls High School which is assisted by the government and is used to live in a dormitory.
Health conditions affected stable by do not require hospitalization so far.
Sundargarh Pavan Kalyan said from 600 class VIII students to X who lived in Hostel, 53 had been tested positively.
“We have launched contact contacts to find out where students have contracted a virus.
They wore a mask at school.
Recently they returned from home.
We want school operations to continue normally.
Also, all teaching staff and non-teaching .
Also.
Has been tested negatively.
The closest shop owner who interacts with students has also been tested negatively for the virus, “said Kalyan.
School sources say a hostel inmates develop several symptoms after the swab sample is taken.
He tested positive.
School authorities then take samples of all prisoners and 52 returned positive.
Students have mild or no symptoms at all.
They have been separated from the rest of the students to examine further deployment.
School authorities cleanse the hostel and school campuses.
A team of doctors also visited the hostel.
In Vimsar, infected medical students have shifted to the Covid-19 hospital isolation ward there.
The first year MBBS students were first tested positive three days ago.
Next, students shift to Ward isolation.
Then, during contact search, the sample of around 180 students was collected from three hostels for testing.
31 Infected students come from the first and second MBBs.
Superintendent Vimsar Lalmohan Nayak said all students who had tested positively received a dose of Covid-19 vaccine.
“Most students asymptomatic,” he added.
Vimsar authorities have asked permission from the Administration of the Sambalpur district to place three institutional hostels under micro detention.