Mangaluru, Feb 3: As many as 49 students of a private nursing college at Ullal in Mangaluru tested positive for covid-19, following which the officials concerned declared the college as containment zone.
Confirming the development, District Nodal Officer Dr Ashok H said that all the infected students are natives of Kerala.
On January 29, six of the symptomatic students had visited Ullal Community Health Centre for testing and were tested positive for Covid-19. Later officials from the department of health and family welfare rushed to the college and collected swabs of all 120 students, faculties, non-teaching staff of the college.
Today, 38 more students received covid-19 positive report. A group of students from Kerala, while travelling to Bengaluru, had visited the college in Ullal, had breakfast and used the toilet, bathroom before leaving. On receiving the news, the department in association with Ullal CMC made arrangement to sanitise the bathrooms, toilets and canteen, said officials.
The Covid-19 positive students are being treated in the college in Ullal under the supervision of the nodal officer of the institution and the health department.
All the students have been asked to remain in quarantine. The overcrowding of students in hostel rooms has been rearranged by converting a few classrooms for quarantine. The boys hostel of the college was situated one and a half kilometre away from the college. All the students from boys hostel too have been shifted to the college for quarantine.
“In spite of RT-PCR negative report mandatory for the students arriving from Kerala, several students come with the negative report obtained from Rapid Antigen Test and the institutions failed to adhere to the SOP issued by the state government. The issue has been brought to the notice of the Deputy Commissioner who in turn has also decided to bring it to the notice of the state government,” said Dr Ashok.
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