After at least 33 students at a school near Madikeri town in Karnataka’s Kodagu district tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, 27 October, authorities shut down the school.
As per health officials, the outbreak was reported at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Galibeedu village.
The institution had reopened on 20 September, while students from across the district reported for the offline classes. However, five days after the school started, two students from 10th grade developed symptoms of fever and later tested positive for COVID.
Following this, the school isolated and tested all 10th grade students and on receiving a negative test for all students, the classes were restarted, Hindustan Times reported.
The state government had reopened offline classes for classes 9 and after the daily COVID-19 case tally dipped in recent weeks.
Again, more than a month later, two more students displayed COVID symptoms and later tested positive.
Around 270 Class 10 students were again tested for the virus, out of whom 33 students tested positive on Wednesday. All COVID positive students are asymptomatic and have been isolated.
The positivity rate in the district stood at 0.19 percent on Tuesday and rose to 1.21 percent on Wednesday following the new cases.
(With inputs from Hindustan Times)
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