59 students, 10 staff of Karnataka school test positive

CHIKKAMAGALURU: In yet another cluster outbreak in an educational institution, 59 students and 10 teaching and non-teaching staff of a government residential school in Karnataka’s

Chikkamagaluru

district on Sunday tested positive for

Covid

, reports Shrinivasa M.

Sources said 457 students and staffers of the residential school in NR Pura taluk run by the Union government were tested for Covid over the weekend after a school teacher tested positive for coronavirus three days ago.

All the students and employees who have turned out positive for Covid are asymptomatic. This comes 10 days after a medical college in Dharwad turned out to be a hotspot with over 300 freshers and seniors testing positive for Covid . Besides, Chikkamagaluru deputy commissioner

KN Ramesh

told TOI that swabs were collected on Friday and Saturday. Medical teams and an ambulance has been kept on standby.