Bengaluru: Twenty-one nursing students from Kerala tested positive for Covid in Karnataka’s Hassan district on Thursday. The 21 students were all enrolled in a private nursing college.
The district administration sealed the lodge where the students were living along with their primary contacts. Earlier, they stayed in paying guest accommodation.
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Another 24 students are being monitored as primary contacts. The students are enrolled in a nursing college in the Katihalli industrial area. The 21 infected students arrived in Hassan before July 26 to take exams. On arrival, they provided certificates of negative RT-PCR results.
According to reports, a district official stated, ‘On Tuesday, a student who showed Covid symptoms was subjected to RT-PCR test. It confirmed the infection and tests were then conducted on the remaining students in the PG. Most of those infected are asymptomatic.’
RT-PCR tests will be conducted on Friday and Saturday for the primary contacts.
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