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Another 22 new Covid-19 cases were detected in SDM College of Medical Sciences on Sunday, taking the total number of infected students and staff to 306.
The cases are likely to rise as the results of another 4,000 swab samples are yet to come.
On Sunday, district in-charge minister Shankar Patil Munenkoppa, local MLA Arvind Bellad and district deputy commissioner Nitesh Patil visited the college. Munenkoppa has directed the district administration to take all appropriate measures to control the spread.
“The situation in the SDM campus is under control and people need not worry,” Munenenkoppa said. “However, the college and hospital will remain a containment zone, which means that a 500-metre radius around the college is out of bounds.”
The Minister said that the origin of the cluster outbreak is a cultural program organized at Dr. Virendra Hegde Kalakshetra from November 15 to 19. “Some of the students and parents who attended the event had fever and cough and were later tested positive,” Munenenkoppa said. “Hence all 3,973 SDM doctors, students and staff were tested and 306 of them have tested positive so far.”
Bellad said that of those who have tested positive, only three are symptomatic and none is serious. “The district administration has taken all possible precautionary measures. 2,000 tests are being conducted every day in the district,” the MLA said.
Patil said all schools and colleges located within 500 meters of the SDM campus will remain closed till December 1.
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