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COVID-19 positive student passes on infection to classmate, parent
The Hindu
A parent and a classmate of one of the two students who had tested COVID-19 positive here on Friday have reportedly been infected with the virus. According to health officials, a total of 39 people we
A parent and a classmate of one of the two students who had tested COVID-19 positive here on Friday have reportedly been infected with the virus. According to health officials, a total of 39 people were tested as primary contacts for the Class IX student, and 26 for the Class XII student. On processing the tests, it was found that one classmate of the Class XII student and her mother reported COVID-19 positive.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.