42 students at Telangana residential school test Covid positive – Education News
42 students and one teacher of a government-run residential school for girls in Sangareddy district of Telangana have tested positive for Covid-19. The cases have come to light at Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Gurukul school at Muthangi village in Sangareddy district, about 50 km from Hyderabad.
Of the 491 students at the school, the Covid test was conducted on Sunday on 261 students and a total of 42 students were found infected. Health authorities were conducting tests on remaining students on Monday. A health official said all 27 teachers and staff members were screened and one teacher was found positive.
The samples of the students who tested positive were sent to Hyderabad for genome sequencing. The official said the infected students were kept in isolation at the hostel in school premises and they were all stable. This is the third incident of students testing positive in large numbers at any educational institution in Telangana during the last 10 days. Last week, Mahindra University near Hyderabad was shut down after 25 students and five staff members tested positive for the virus.
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