Mangaluru: Covid-19 Straightening Curve in Dakshina Kannada has reached a lump after a para-medical college on the outskirts of Mangaluru is stated as ‘detention zone’ – this is the first area to be declared the detention zone in more than a month.
– After nine students were positively tested for the Coronavirus novel.
Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner KV Rajendra confirmed that the college has been identified as a covid cluster.
Nodal Officer for Covid-19 Dr.
Ashok H said, “We have effectively isolate the hostel.
Students who have tested positive for Coronavirus novels have been quarantined in the dormitory.
All infected people aged over 18.
We have visited for hostels of girls and men -Laki, and steps-boys are being taken to prevent viral transmissions.
So far we have collected samples from 173 students that we identified as the main and secondary contacts of those infected.
All 173 samples have been tested negatively for Covid-19.
However, all the main contacts have also been quarantined, while food is supplied to all people who have been isolated.
“Of the nine cases reported at the Medical College, three reported on Saturday, while four students were confirmed infected on Sundays and two were found positive for Coronavirus novels on Monday.
“We will collect swab samples from nine students and subjugate them to RT-PCR tests again after a week,” said Dr.
Ashok.
Nodal officers remember the Covid infection outbreak in Navodaya Vidyalaya in Dakshina Kannada, where 16 people were tested positive for Coronavirus novels between 15 and 28 November.
“The Ministry of Health collects swabs from 231 main contacts in the institution.
Until now are three active cases in educational institutions,” he said.
Dakshina Kannada District Supervision Officer, Dr.
Jagadeesh said that the infected sample of students had been sent to the laboratory for the genome sequencing.
Commissioner Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) Akshy Sridhar said, “The students are tested on the command of MCC, because the direction has been spent to make everyone returning to Dakshina Kannada from Kerala in the last 15 days.”