Covid-19: 54 Sainik School students test +ve in Karnal

Tribune News Service

Karnal, March 2

Karnal has witnessed a sudden surge in the cases of the Covid-19 in the last one week.

On Tuesday, as many as 78 cases have been reported, of them 54 were students of Sainik School, Kunjpura, forcing the authorities to come into action.

“Three students of the Sainik School have tested positive on Monday, following which we got collected the samples of contacts and all the students of the hostel and staff members. On Tuesday, samples of 54 students, out of 390 samples collected by us, were found positive,” said Dr Yogesh Sharma, Civil Surgeon. After surfacing of a huge number of cases in a single day, Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav on Tuesday declared the school building as containment zone.

Chandigarh: As many as 4,557 people above the age of 60 and 471 in the 45 to 60 age bracket with comorbidity got their first dose of Covid vaccine in Haryana today.

According to sources in the National Health Mission, 209 session sites were held today across the state.

Besides them, 1,270 healthcare and frontline workers got their first dose of the vaccine while 2,405 got their second dose. The cumulative number of doses till today is 3,06,055.

Today, 175 new cases of Covid were witnessed in the state, while two persons, one each at Kurukshetra and Gurugram, lost their lives.