Dharwad: Dharwad District Collector Nitesh Patil said that 99 more medical college students and department members have tested positive for COVID-19 in Dharwad, Karnataka, taking the total number of affected medical students to 281 on Saturday. Patil said, 'This number may increase. At present, the results of 1,822 tests are awaited.
He further said that only six out of 281 patients showed mild symptoms. Others are non-symptomatic. All have been quarantined and are being treated.
Let us inform that earlier 66 people tested positive in SDM College of Medical Sciences in Dharwad, Karnataka. Following this, the district administration tested more people including fellow students, staff and primary contacts of the infected students and 116 of them tested positive on Friday, taking the total number of infected students to 182. Now where the total number has gone up to 281.
The students had attended a function organized in the college campus on November 17. Patients have not shown severe symptoms associated with the virus. A big reason behind this is that everyone has taken both the doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. As a precaution, a holiday has been declared till Sunday in educational institutions within a radius of 500 meters near the college.
District Collector Nitesh Patel had earlier said, “We are conducting RAT and RTPCR tests of around 3,000 people inside the premises. The college administration has been instructed not to allow any visitors inside the campus. Those present in the hospital will not be allowed inside. Patients are undergoing treatment.
Karnataka on Saturday reported 402 new COVID-19 cases and six deaths. According to the state health department, there are 6,611 active cases of infection in the state. Karnataka has recorded 29,94,963 infection cases since the start of the pandemic last year. With 277 people being reported cured in the last 24 hours, the total recovery has reached 29,50,130 people till now. The death toll is 38,193. Of the six deaths on Friday, one each was reported in Bengaluru Urban, Dakshina Kannada, Dharwada, Hassan, Kodagu and Raichuru.
