In Hassan, Karnataka, 100 nursing students tested positive for COVID-19
New Delhi: At least 100 nursing students from two colleges in Karnataka’s Hassan district tested COVID-19 positive on Friday (August 6). (August 6). As per the ANI report, these students had to undergo the COVID-19 test after 21 nursing students from Kerala, who had come to Hassan for an exam on Thursday, were found positive.
According to officials, 100 nursing students from Hassan’s two universities are asymptomatic and are currently being treated at the district’s private COVID care center.
Out of 48 students from Kerala who came to Hassan, 21 tested positive, prompting district health officials to conduct coronavirus tests on more than 900 students from the region’s nine nursing colleges on Friday. According to Dr. Vijay, Hassan’s Health Taluk Officer, the nursing students traveled to Hassan to take the supplemental test, which was held on July 26 at their college. All 27 primary contacts of these 21 positive pupils have been quarantined.
In light of the present COVID-19 scenario, the Karnataka government made a negative RT-PCR report essential for persons entering the state from neighboring Kerala and Maharashtra on July 31. The negative RT-PCR report has also become a requirement for students and individuals who visit Karnataka on a daily basis for education, business, and other reasons. Visitors must submit to an RT-PCR test once every 15 days and provide a negative result.
