11 Girls Of Jharkhand Residential School Test Covid Positive
NDTV
A random test for Covid-19 was conducted by the administration of the institution on April 27. A total of 195 students, as well as staff, underwent RT-PCR tests that day.
As many as 11 students of Kasturba Gandhi Girls Residential School in Jharkhand's Chatra district were tested positive for Covid-19 in the past two days, officials said on Friday.
Eight girls of class 12 and two of class 11 were found to be afflicted with the disease on May 4, while another one tested positive for the virus on Thursday.
A random test for Covid-19 was conducted by the administration of the institution on April 27. A total of 195 students, as well as staff, underwent RT-PCR tests that day.
"We were provided with the test report on May 4 in which 10 students were reported to be positive with Covid-19," Arundhati Dutta, in charge of Kasturba Gandhi Residential schools in Chatra, told PTI.