Bengaluru: 40 nursing school college students check constructive for coronavirus

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At least 40 college students of a non-public nursing school in Bengaluru have examined constructive for the coronavirus, well being officers stated. The officers on Saturday stated that the majority of those college students are from Kerala and the mass testing might be carried out in all of the nursing and medical faculties of town from February 14 to twenty.
Bengaluru’s civic physique Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad inspected the school and inquired in regards to the measures initiated by authorities to deal with these instances.
Prasad additionally appealed to the state authorities to make it necessary for all the scholars coming to town’s academic establishments, to hold a adverse Covid-19 check certificates that shouldn’t be older than 72 hours.
The Karnataka authorities introduced that college students coming from Kerala to Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Mysuru, Kodagu and Chamarajanagar districts should get an RTPCR adverse check report.
The Commissioner stated the Pulakeshi Nagar nursing school has a complete of 210 college students and majority are from Kerala.
“The test reports showed 40 students had tested positive, while 28 are asymptomatic and 12 have mild symptoms. Among these 35 are girls and 5 are boys,” he added.
Prasad stated that the authorities declare that Covid testing was performed for all the scholars between January 25 and February 10 however as precautionary measure the Bengaluru civic physique has stationed its medical staff within the school premises.
“Though the college has made arrangements for isolation of all the 40 students in the hostel with all basic facilities, we have also advised to isolate and quarantine all the 210 students for the next 14 days,” he added.

The Commissioner additionally directed the universities to go for mass testing camps in any respect the nursing and medical faculties within the metropolis.
Meanwhile, the BBMP East Zone has appointed full-time area officers and marshals to work 24/7 to make sure there is no such thing as a breach of isolation.
Prasad stated that docs from Sultanpalya Primary Health Care have been directed to go to the school no less than as soon as in a day to verify the scholars’ very important parameters and guarantee there aren’t any well being issues.
“The samples of the students tested were sent to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (Nimhans), Bengaluru, for genome sequencing to determine if they were infected by a new variant of the Covid-19 virus,” he stated.
The Commissioner additionally directed the school authorities to make sure that the scholars do not step out of isolation and in addition get admitted to Victoria hospital if their signs worsen.
According to officers, a number of nursing and medical faculties have reopened within the metropolis and several other college students are travelling again from their properties in numerous states to Bengaluru.
The BBMP Commissioner additionally directed all Zonal Health Officers to make sure that the mass testing camps are carried out successfully.
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