The increasing Covid-19 infections among students have led to apprehensions of danger to their parents and elderly family members.
On Thursday, as many as four school students, three of a private school and one of the Kendriya Vidyalaya-I, tested positive for the virus in Bhubaneswar.
The three students of private school are hostel boarders and have been asked to vacate hostel. Their swab samples were earlier collected for test after they developed coronavirus symptoms.
A team of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) took stock of the situation and all inmates of the particular hostel would be tested. If necessary, testing of inmates of four other hostels of the school will be conducted, a BMC official said. On the day, the hostels and school campus was sanitised.
However, student of KV-I here who contracted virus had appeared for pre-board examinations with other students in a classroom.
All students present in classroom and their parents have been asked by school authorities to undergo isolation. Covid-19 test of students and their parents will be carried out after collection of their swab samples, BMC said.