Eighteen girl students were found Covid-19 positive after testing in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district on Sunday.
This was reported from Kasturba Gandhi Residential School, Mahadevdhand. The students started to report ill. Covid-19 tests confirmed 18 students had contacted Covid-19.
The students have been provided medical care by isolating them in the school premises. Their condition is stable, an official communication said.
The school has been shut down.
Earlier, 53 students and staff were found Covid-19 positive at the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in village Chindpali in Mahasamund district on August 2.
The Health and Family welfare department said on Saturday that the positivity rate in Chhattisgarh was 5.30 percent after testing 9,306 persons. The positive cases detected were 493. Twenty-eight districts have reported positive cases.
The total number of active cases in the state is 3,371 and four deaths were reported. The highest number of positive cases reported in a single day was in Durg (70), Raipur (46), Dhamtari (39), Rajnandgaon (37) and Balod (35).