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 officers for Covid-19 Dr.
Ashok H said, “We have effectively isolate the hostel.
The students who have tested positive for Coronavirus novels have been quarantined at the hostel.
All infected people are over 18.
We have visited Hostel Girls’ and boys’, and steps are taken to prevent viral transmissions.
So far, we have collected samples from 173 students that we identified as primary and secondary contacts of those who are confirmed infected.
All 173 samples have been tested negatively for Covid-19.
However , all the main contacts have also been quarantined, while food supplies for all those who have been isolated.
“Of the nine cases reported in the Medical College, three reported on Saturday, while four students were confirmed infected on Sundays and two were found positively Coronavirus novel 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 at the institution.
Until now, there 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.” DK, the Udupi District reported two cases at any time, except for two cases reported in para-medical colleges, no other fresh Covid-19 cases reported in the Dakshina district of Kannada.
The district recorded the level of 0.03 front ministers, while Kaseload actively fell to 138 after the release of nine patients.
Overall, 22,86,936 tests have been conducted in the district with 1,15,961 which has been tested positively in this district.
So far, 1,699 people have given up on infection.
The neighboring udupi district also witnessed a steep decline in the number of new cases, with only two more confected to be infected.
Active Kasel fell to 75 in the Udupi district.