Karnataka: Nursing College In Bengaluru Turned Covid Hotspot, Sealed After 34 Students Test Positive

While there are 102 Covid-19 clusters in Bengaluru city limits, Christian College of Nursing containment zone has the highest number of coronavirus patients

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Bengaluru: On Thursday, a private nursing college in Bengaluru was identified as Covid-19 cluster as 34 students -- 22 women and 12 men -- who returned from Kerala and West Bengal have tested positive. The Bruhatha Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officials have sealed the Christian College of Nursing, located in the outskirts of the city limits.

This is the second nursing college in the state to be declared as a containment zone, first being Rev Noorunissa College of Nursing in Kolar. Earlier, the nursing college in Kolar had 65 nursing students tested positive for the deadly virus.

According to a report in The Indian Express, the first 10 students tested positive on August 28 while another 12 students diagnosed with the deadly virus on August 30 and on Thursday 12 more students tested positive -- taking the tally to 34 in the college. The report further suggests that most of the students who tested positive have displayed their RT-PCR negative report on arrival from their respective state.- All the students who have tested positive have been shifted to Covid Care Centre.

“The infected students are currently undergoing treatment at a Covid care centre and none of them has any serious symptoms. All of them have received at least the first of the vaccine,” a civic official told Hindustan Times, on condition of anonimity.

According to the HT report, All the students arrived at the nursing college in Bengaluru on August 5 with negative RT-PCR reports and they might have contracted the virus after arrival only.

This Covid cluster has highest number of Covid cases in the BBMP limits as other clusters donot have more than seven cases. The 102 Covid clusters in BBMP limits comprises 53 residential houses, 41 apartments buildings, five hostels and PGs, two are schools and colleges, as mentioned in The News Minute report.