Chennai: 60 students of a boarding school in Karnataka's Bengaluru tested positive for COVID-19. They were residing in the hotel of Sri Chaitanya Girls's Residential School and their test result turned positive on Sunday. Overall the hostel has 485 students and 57 teaching and non-teaching staff.
According to a report in The Hindu, the new cluster was found after one of the students had high fever, vomiting and diarrhea and tested positive for COVID-19. The student has been admitted to Lady Curzon and Bowring Hospital. Once she tested positive, a Rapid Antigen test was taken for 105 students who were primary contacts of the first positive case on September 27 and of them 27 turned positive. Then, the remaining students and staff took RT-PCR testing in which 33 people tested positive for Covid-19.
Among the 60 students, another student opted for home quarantine while the remaining students are under hostel quarantine. Of the 60 students, 14 students are from Tamil Nadu while the remaining students are from different parts of Karnataka.
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The private boarding school which was sealed during the second wave of the pandemic reopened only on September 5. Hence, the school authorities have decided to close the school till October 20. They have also fumigated the hostel and the school with the help of Corporation officials and said that they are closely monitoring the situation.
However, once the news of students’ Covid-19 status reached the parents, many of them gathered in front of the schools and told the school authorities to send back their wards. Hence, a student from Hosur alone has been sent back to school with her parents.