CHIKKAMAGALURU : 69 people in the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Chikmagalur district of Karnataka tested positive for Covid-19.
This included 59 students and 10 staff members, and all of them are asymptomatic, a health officer said. According to sources in the district authorities, the school has been sealed for seven days and doctors and paramedical staff have been deployed there.
Rooms are also being sanitised, they added. "We had conducted tests on 457 people in the JNV here, of which 59 students and 10 staff tested positive for COVID-19.
They are asymptomatic but we have isolated them," District Health Officer Dr S N Umesh was quoted telling news agency PTI. The officer said the test reports of all the people who were tested have