Coimbatore: A school student in the district and eight students in Tirupur was tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday.
With this, 117 school students have tested the positive virus in the state since the reopening of the school in September 1.
On Wednesday only, 34 school students were tested positive for Covid-19 in the state.
Eight of them came from a school in Tirupur, where a class X Chinnasamy Ammal Secondary School was found infected on Tuesday during random testing carried out by public health staff.
Next, the swab sample of several school friends was taken on the same day.
When the results arrived on Wednesday, eight of them were found infected.
“The parents of a student are also tested positively, taking the total number of cases in the cluster to 11,” the official source said.
Swab samples were collected from the contact on the day itself.
The school will remain closed for the next three days, when the classroom and premise will be disinfected.
At least 11 students have been tested positive for Covid-19 in the district so far.
In addition, several teachers have also contracted a virus during the period.
Compare, schools in Madurai have not reported any case of Covid-19 after reopening earlier this month.
While some students have contracted a virus in Trichy in the last few days, there was no new case that day.
T S Selvavinayagam, Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, said daily cases were higher in Coimbatore, compared to most other districts.
“When the virus is present in the community, it is reasonable for students to be infected in school.
And because we identify them in the early stages of infection itself through random testing, we can contain deployment.” He said if the number increased beyond the limit, they would take steps.
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“Until now, all the schools opened again monitored carefully.” he says.