19 children were found to be infected with Covid-19 at Maharashtra's Jawahar Navodaya University, following which 450 students were tested for the virus. Now, 33 more children have tested positive. A total of 52 children have been infected with Covid. The school has been sealed and the area has been declared a containment zone.
The school is located at Takli Dhokeshwar in the Ahmednagar district of the state, reported Ndtv.
The students who have been detected with the infection have been quarantined at Parner's Rural Hospital, where they are being offered treatment, Ndtv had reported.
District collector Rajendra Bhosale, while speaking to the news channel, said all close and distant contacts of the students are being traced. RT-PCR tests are being conducted on them, he said.
The district is also tracing all close and distant contacts of the students, with 100 per cent RT-PCR testing of all contacts presently underway, added the collector.
The number of cases of the fast-spreading Omicron variant of Covid has risen to 422 in India, with Maharashtra reporting the most number of infections. The state has also has reported the most number of Covid cases. It has 108 cases of the new variant. Forty-two people have recovered in the state so far, according to the Health Ministry.
Amid the emerging risks posed by the new coronavirus variant, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a landmark announcement on December 25, said children aged from 15 to 18 will be eligible for vaccination from January 3 onwards.