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 happened with as many as 33 students in three schools in the village of Dharwad who tested positive for the novel Coronavirus in the past week, leaving both teachers and parents worrying 22 students, and a teacher, in the government high school in Kusugal has been tested positively covid -19 After randomized testing procedures.
“On Tuesday, we tested 220 grade nine 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 who had been sealed in the past week.
“In government secondary schools in Tarihal, 10 students were tested positive for Covid, while three students in Gopankoppa Middle School were confirmed infected with Covid.
Workers from the Ministry of Health often visit students who have been tested positively, and are quarantined at home, and monitor their conditions,” 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 the age group 15 to 18 were being intensified on the others.
“From 7,611 students who are eligible 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.Ashok said that all precautions were being taken at school in the village village.