Nashik: Fourteen boys and one woman studied at the Ashramshala from the Department of Tribe in Igatpuri Taluka from Nashik Regency had been tested positively Covid infection and was received at Nashik civil hospital.
All of these students do not show symptoms and in stable conditions.
“The health of children is stable.
All asymptomatic children and their health are fine.
They do good,” said a civil surgeon Dr.
Ashok Thorat.
Nashik District Collector Suraj Mandhare said on Friday that student samples would be sent to the sequencing of the genome to Pune to find out whether they had an ‘omicron’ virus infection.
This is done to be on a safer side, he added.
According to officials of the Tribal Development Department, from 349 tests conducted – including 102 children, 103 girls, teachers and non-teaching 18 and the Middle Kitchen staff 126, only 15 were tested positive.
“Given the atmosphere here, there is a student who has a cold.
It was not severe but we thought of completing the test.
After the antigen test was quickly done in Wadivarhe PHON back positive, we took it to Ghoti where the RT-PCR test was carried out on December 6, “Said Tansmaster Jahagirdar, said the principal.
Officers with the help of taluka health workers quickly conducted a RT-PCR test from all 349 on the same day and everything was stored isolated to ensure infection – if at all – it didn’t spread.
“The test report that arrived on Thursday night reflected that 15 children were positive and therefore all shifted to a civil hospital,” the officer said.
Integrated Tribal Development Project Officer Vasha Meena and even Chief Executive Zilla Parishad Leena Bansod monitors the situation.
A senior officer of the tribal development department said that all students and teachers left now have been quarantined for the next few days as prevention and school measures have been converted into detention zones.
“Children will not travel to their homes but remain at school, where the medical team has been posted to care for them,” the officer said.
Meanwhile, two teachers from two separate Zilla Parishad schools at Trimbakeshwar Taluka have tested positive infections.