Chamrajnagar: Three students at Morarji Desai Residential School test positive for COVID
Chamarajanagar: In the Morarji Desai residential school located in the outskirts of the district in Hanur town, 3 students have reportedly been confirmed to have tested for COVID-19.
A first pre-university college student, a grade 9 student, and a grade 10 student studying in the Hanur Morarji Desai residential school have been confirmed to have contracted the infection, it is learned.
Reportedly, the school had admitted all the students and begun classes only after having obtained Covid negative reports from the students. However, in the past week, some students had shown symptoms of cough, cold, and fever because of which the students in question were made to undergo medical tests in the COVID Centre located in Hanur Town and later sent home, it is learned. Among the swab samples that were sent for testing, it was found that 3 students had tested positive for COVID-19. The principal of the school, senior officers from the department, and Health Department officials reportedly informed the details about the matter.
A team comprising of the Health Department officer and staff immediately arrived in the school in the wake of the realization and conducted a test on the 13 students there and later confirmed that the reports of the 13 students had come out negative. The swab samples of 99 students have reportedly been collected and sent for the RTPCR test. Until the reports with the test results are out, the Health department has directed for the 99 students to be kept in a separate room under isolation, it is learned.
The Education Officer for the Hanur region, Swamy T. R has responded to the happenings saying, “It is true that 3 students have been confirmed to have contracted the corona infection. All the rooms in the school have already been sanitized. Apart from this, once every two days, all schools are being sanitized. The Senior officers have been briefed in this regard, and no decisions have been taken to close schools so far”, he said.
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India captain Rohit, Yashasvi named in Mumbai squad for next Ranji game
Mumbai, Jan 20 (PTI): India captain Rohit Sharma will show up in a Ranji Trophy match for the first time in almost a decade after he and rising star Yashasvi Jaiswal were named in Mumbai's squad for their fixture against Jammu and Kashmir, starting January 23 at MCA-BKC Ground here.
The team will continue to be led by the seasoned Ajinkya Rahane, the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) said while announcing the squad on Monday.
Rohit had confirmed his participation for the next round of the Ranji Trophy match on Saturday during a press conference to announce India's squads for limited-overs series against England and the Champions Trophy next month.
When asked if he would play in the next domestic game for his state team, Rohit replied, "I will".
Of late there have been questions over Rohit's form in the longest format after his forgettable outing in his last eight Tests, including against New Zealand at home and against Australia Down Under.
The India skipper had showed up for a training session for Mumbai on January 15 as it became clear after the team's disastrous tour of Australia that the BCCI has made it mandatory for the players to feature in domestic circuit.
Soon after, Jaiswal too joined the Mumbai camp which trained at the BKC ground as he had a few batting sessions with his domestic team.
The BCCI recently made it mandatory for all contracted India players to participate in domestic cricket except when there are fitness issues.
Rohit had cited a busy schedule with the national team among reasons for not playing domestic cricket.
"(In) the last 6-7 years, I can at least tell about what has happened with me since I've started playing Test cricket regularly, which is from 2019, you hardly have any time (in hand)," he told media.
"And then, when you play so much international cricket through the year, you need some time off as well as a cricketer just to refresh, get your mind right, just to be ready for the upcoming season."
"But we have addressed it now and nobody takes it for granted or anything like that. It is just based on looking at how one has gone through the season, how much rest he needs.
"Based on all of that, we decide what is going to happen with certain players. Now it's been made mandatory that if there is time, you have to play domestic cricket,” he said.
Mumbai squad: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ayush Mhatre, Shreyas Iyer, Siddhesh Lad, Shivam Dube, Hardik Tamore (wk), Akash Anand (wk), Tanush Kotian, Shams Mulani, Himanshu Singh, Shardul Thakur, Mohit Awasthi, Sylvester Dsouza, Royston Dias, Karsh Kothari.
