Bhubaneswar: KV student who tested COVID +ve had appeared for pre-board exams

Sambad English Bureau Published On : Mar 25, 2021 at 10:02 AM

Bhubaneswar: A student of Kendriya Vidyalaya-I in Odisha capital, who tested positive for COVID-19, had appeared for pre-board exams along with other students in a classroom, reports said.

All students present in the classroom and their parents have been asked by school authorities to undergo isolation.

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COVID-19 test of the students and their parents will be carried out after collection of their swab samples.

As many as four school students– three of a private school and one of Kendriya Vidyalaya-I– have tested positive for COVID-19 in the city.

The three students of the private school are hostel boarders and have been asked to vacate the hostel. Their swab samples were earlier collected for test after they developed COVID-19 symptoms.

A team of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) visited the school to take stock of the situation. COVID-19 test of all inmates of the particular hostel will be carried out. If necessary, testing of inmates of four other hostels of the school will be conducted, a BMC official said, adding that the hostels and school campus will be sanitised.