Nainital ( Uttarakhand ): As many as 85 students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Nainital’s Gangarkote tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday.
Deputy Collector, Rahul Sah said, “Initially, 11 students tested positive along the school staff was found COVID-19 infected. Following that Uttarakhand Health Department set up a testing camp and took 496 samples in which 85 children were found to be COVID-19 positive.”
“After the coronavirus cases came to light, the school was transformed into a micro-containment zone on the instructions of the Deputy Collector, Rahul Sah”, said an official.
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Apart from this, children are being isolated in the school itself and arrangements are being made for them, the children who came negative in the RTPCR test will have a rapid antigen test and following that they would be discharged.
Meanwhile, Uttarakhand on Saturday reported four new Omicron cases taking a total of Omicron cases to eight, as per Central government data.
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