Mangaluru: Educational institutions in coastal districts turn into detention zones and this year, schools have also been added to the list.
According to the Ministry of Health, from January 1 to date, 12 educational institutions — The majority of them hostels — declared detention zones.
“At least two to four institutions are declared the detention zone every week,” said Dr.
Ashok H, said Nodal for Covid-19 in Dakshina Kannada.
Each educational institution reported five or more Covid-19 cases stated the detention zone.
It is marked as a de-container zone after a week if there is no positive case found.
During the second wave, many higher education institutions have turned to the detention zone.
Ashok said that the Ministry of Health had noticed that several institutions with Covid-19 cases on the campus closed the facility without taking it to the notice of officials.
“We have taken it to the task.
A few days ago, a college near the Kodialbail shifted to the online class after the campus reported more than five Covid-19 cases.
It was not taken to the health department notification,” he said.
He said the institution must notify the department.
“Until now, the majority of detention zones are college hostels followed by school.
If the health department found a hostel where inmates from various infected colleges Covid-19, we declared hostel detention zones instead of their school or college.
For example: Hostel BCM.
Similarly, we have asked the public instruction department to suspend classes on campus if there are clusters in certain classes, “Ashok said.
The development of educational institutions which was declared to be a detention zone began around mid-December with paramedic and breastfeeding colleges.
“At present, all kinds of educational institutions have been expressed as detention zones …
most students have mild or asymptomatic symptoms,” Ashok said.
A senior professor added that the majority of student populations in Dakshina Kannada have symptoms of Covid-19.
“The problem is that they don’t want to be tested,” said Professor who recovered from Covid-19 a few days ago.