19 School Students Test Positive For COVID-19 In Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar

TPI Staff December 25, 2021

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Mumbai: As many as 19 students of a Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district have tested positive for coronavirus over the last three to four days, District Collector Rajendra Bhosale said.

The residential school, part of the Navodaya Vidyalaya network which comes under the Union Ministry of Education, is located at Takli Dhokeshwar village in Parner tehsil of the district.

The school has more than 400 students from classes 5 to 12.

“Nineteen students tested positive over the last three to four days. All are isolated and hospitalized. Most of them have no symptoms and some have an only mild illness,” said district collector Rajendra Bhosale.

“We are conducting RT-PCR testing of remaining students as well as teachers, non-teaching staff and visitors,” he said.