Bhubaneswar: BJB College student tests COVID +ve

Bhubaneswar: A girl student of BJB College in Odisha capital has tested positive for COVID-19, reports said.

The +2 Second Year Commerce student of the educational institution is not a hostel boarder and had not attended classes regularly. Contact tracing in this connection was underway, reports added.

The student and her classmates who came in contact with her have been asked by the college authorities not to appear for the +2 pre-board exams, which started from today.

Recently, a woman teacher of the Ramadevi Women’s University in the city had contracted the virus. Swab samples of as many as 198 employees of the university who came in contact with her were collected for COVID-19 test.

All of them have tested negative for the virus.