A total of 17 girl students in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district have tested positive for Covid-19, an official said on Saturday.
Four girls tested positive on Saturday and 13 were detected Covid-19 positive on Friday, he said.
The infected students are from classes 8 to 10 of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Bhupdevpur.
Raigarh Chief Medical and Health Officer Dr. S.N. Keshari said the 17 have been shifted from the hostel to a guest house and the entire school has been declared a ‘containment zone’.
Samples of 176 girls studying in Classes 6 to 12 were tested on Friday and that of 300 boys on Saturday. These reports are yet to come, he added.
Last Sunday, parents of some of the children had come to meet them. One of the parents was infected. The Health Department has set up a camp to curb the spread and monitor the situation, the CMHO said.
As on Friday, Chhattisgarh had a caseload of 10,07,540, including 13,597 deaths.