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| 50 students, teacher test positive in South Kashmir for COVID-19 | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Mar 31: As many as 50 students and a teacher tested positive for COVID-19 in South Kashmir’s Anantnag and Kulgam districts today during mass testing, officials said. 36 students and a 60-year-old teacher tested for COVID-19 at Noorani Public School in Khull area of Damhal Hanjipora in Kulgam, they said.
The officials said that students and teachers were tested for COVID-19 during a mass testing campaign that the health authorities and district administration had started a few weeks ago. Block Medical Officer (BMO) D H Pora Dr. Shugufta Salam confirmed that 37 COVID-19 positive cases were detected from the school during mass/random testing.
“The primacy contacts of all positive cases will be tested in due course of time,” she said.
She said 390 were tested while 37 among them were declared as positive for COVID-19 adding all the primary and secondary contacts of the affected students have been advised to self-isolate, quarantine themselves. Additional Deputy Commissioner Kulgam Showket Ahmad Rather said that school will remain closed for a week due to a surge in COVID-19 positive cases.
In another case, 14 students of Government Higher Secondary School Katsoo Srigufwara also tested positive for COVID-19 during mass testing. Zonal Education Officer Srigufwara Abdul Rashid told Early Times that he has ordered the closure of school for seven days.
The authorities in Anantnag district also directed a private school, operating in Mattan area of the district, to close the school for three days after its head (chairman) tested positive for corona virus.
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