Karnataka | Covid-19
Karnataka Medical College reports 30 Covid cases in last four days
Bengaluru/IBNS: Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College in Karnataka's Kollar has become a Coovid cluster after 30 students tested positive for coronavirus in the last four days, according to media reports.
The district administration tested 1,160 students and staff members.
All infected people have been admitted to hospital and are stable. Their samples have been sent for genome sequencing to detect the virus strain.
None of those who have tested positive have travel history.
The test positivity rate in Karnataka is 0.35 percent.
There are a total of 7,251 active cases of Covid in Karnataka.
As many as 15,588 passengers have arrived from countries that were declared "at-risk" after the outbreak of Omicron.
"As regards Karnataka, we were told to pay attention to the increase in the number of clusters. We have been told to implement stringent measures in these areas and also to look at containment measures in the clusters," Arundathi Chandrashekar, Managing Director, National Health Mission, had said.
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