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As many as 69 people, including 59 students of a school in Karnataka’s Chikkamagaluru district tested positive for Covid-19 infection as the active caseload in the cluster rose further on Sunday, officials of the health and family welfare department confirmed.
The new cluster has been identified at Jawahar Navodaya School at Seegodu near Balehonnur after samples of 418 people, including students and staff, were tested after three students and four staff members had contracted Covid-19 on Friday. Another 36 people in the cluster contracted the infection on Saturday as well
District Health Officer S N Umesh said another 26 samples returned with a positive result on Sunday. “With this, the total number of active cases in the cluster has risen to 69, including 59 students, with most of them being asymptomatic. Their health parameters are being monitored continuously and the school has been sealed for the next fortnight. All infected people have been quarantined in different blocks within the campus itself,” he said.
Incidentally, this comes a day after Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai announced the government’s decision that any area with three or more cases of Covid-19 will be classified as a cluster, citing measures taken to contain the spread of the Omicron variant in the state. Earlier, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) had defined clusters to be with at least 10 active Covid-19 cases.
As on Sunday, the health bulletin stated that Chikkamagluru district had 314. The same had shot up by nearly seven times as the active caseload was 45 a day back.
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