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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Nine of family killed as car falls into well in Nashik district
Nashik (PTI): Nine members of a family, including six children, were killed after their car fell into a well in Maharashtra's Nashik district, police said on Saturday.
The accident occurred in the Shivaji Nagar area of Dindori town around 10 pm on Friday, an official said.
The victims were heading home after attending a function at a banquet hall in the area when their car fell into a well near the venue, he said.
Personnel from the local police and emergency services arrived at the scene and retrieved the car and its occupants with the help of two cranes and swimmers around midnight.
The victims were members of the Dargude family from Indore village in Dindori taluka, the official said.
According to the police, the deceased were identified as Sunil Dattu Dargude (32), his wife Reshma, Asha Anil Dargude (32), and six children from the family, five girls in the age group of seven to 14 years and an 11-year-old boy.
Their bodies were brought to the government hospital in Dindori, the official said, adding that a case has been registered and a probe is underway to ascertain the cause of the accident.
