BENGALURU: In a fresh outbreak, 32 people have tested positive for Covid-19 at a private nursing college at Horamavu near Henoor Road in Bengaluru. This is the second such outbreak in the state this week. On Tuesday, a nursing college in Kolar district reported 65 new cases among its students.
on the cluster Christian college of nursing, on the outskirts of the capital city, surfaced on August 28. Of the 32 who have been infected, two are staff members and the rest are students, all of whom had travel history. While 20 students had returned from Kerala, 10 had come from West Bengal.
It started with some students developing symptoms. Information given by the college administration bbmp And about 100 students were tested on 28th August. Ten returned positive through rapid antigen tests and were shifted to government-run covid care center (CCC). The next day, 70 more were tested and six were positive, which was a lot for Palike’s chagrin. On 30 August, five more were found infected and on Tuesday 11 more were found infected after widening the net of investigation. The 33rd test report was inconclusive. The officials have now planned to test all the 300 students on the rolls.
While all 32 tested positive through Mice method, only 16 tested positive RT-PCR. “RAT positive means COVID positive and all of them have been shifted to CCC,” MR. he said pacificepidemiologist, Mahadevapura Zone, which was involved in locating the cluster. After the first 10 cases were detected on August 28, the BBMP authorities sealed the college for 14 days. Swab samples of people who have been infected with this virus have also been sent for genomic sequencing.
The BBMP has also started perimeter field testing – everyone within 100 meters of the cluster will be tested. So far no person around the college has been infected.
In March, before the second wave, Bengaluru saw a fresh outbreak in nursing hostels and paying guest accommodation. But BBMP officials say this should not be seen as the start of a third wave. “It is a cluster, we caught it early and localized it. Institutional quarantine and containment strategies helped,” said Randeep D, Special Commissioner, Health, BBMP.
All non-Karnataka students quarantined on arrival
BENGALURU: 30 students who tested positive at the Christian College of Nursing in Bengaluru are in the first year and they entered the college for the first time. Principal Blossom Mary said she was quarantined upon arrival on August 5, and initially, attended only online classes. He said interactions with other students were limited.
“All the students had taken one dose of the vaccine and were quarantined for a week upon arrival,” said college director Nikhil George. The students later developed symptoms.
BBMP officials said they were called for tests after some students developed symptoms like cough, fever and vomiting. He said that all the students from Kerala had carried negative reports of Covid with them and tested negative on arrival. However, health department officials said that it is difficult to check the authenticity of the RT-PCR report.
“It is possible that he actually tested negative 72 hours before leaving Kerala,” said an expert helping the state government on Covid management. “If the infection is in the incubation stage and the virus load is low, it is possible that the RT-PCR test gives a negative report, but the person will actually be infected and eventually test positive.”
The fact that some students tested negative through RT-PCR method but positive through RAT created confusion among them, but BBMP has clarified that they are COVID-positive and test based on viral load Results may vary. BBMP officials said they are checking the vaccination status of the students.
on the cluster Christian college of nursing, on the outskirts of the capital city, surfaced on August 28. Of the 32 who have been infected, two are staff members and the rest are students, all of whom had travel history. While 20 students had returned from Kerala, 10 had come from West Bengal.
It started with some students developing symptoms. Information given by the college administration bbmp And about 100 students were tested on 28th August. Ten returned positive through rapid antigen tests and were shifted to government-run covid care center (CCC). The next day, 70 more were tested and six were positive, which was a lot for Palike’s chagrin. On 30 August, five more were found infected and on Tuesday 11 more were found infected after widening the net of investigation. The 33rd test report was inconclusive. The officials have now planned to test all the 300 students on the rolls.
While all 32 tested positive through Mice method, only 16 tested positive RT-PCR. “RAT positive means COVID positive and all of them have been shifted to CCC,” MR. he said pacificepidemiologist, Mahadevapura Zone, which was involved in locating the cluster. After the first 10 cases were detected on August 28, the BBMP authorities sealed the college for 14 days. Swab samples of people who have been infected with this virus have also been sent for genomic sequencing.
The BBMP has also started perimeter field testing – everyone within 100 meters of the cluster will be tested. So far no person around the college has been infected.
In March, before the second wave, Bengaluru saw a fresh outbreak in nursing hostels and paying guest accommodation. But BBMP officials say this should not be seen as the start of a third wave. “It is a cluster, we caught it early and localized it. Institutional quarantine and containment strategies helped,” said Randeep D, Special Commissioner, Health, BBMP.
All non-Karnataka students quarantined on arrival
BENGALURU: 30 students who tested positive at the Christian College of Nursing in Bengaluru are in the first year and they entered the college for the first time. Principal Blossom Mary said she was quarantined upon arrival on August 5, and initially, attended only online classes. He said interactions with other students were limited.
“All the students had taken one dose of the vaccine and were quarantined for a week upon arrival,” said college director Nikhil George. The students later developed symptoms.
BBMP officials said they were called for tests after some students developed symptoms like cough, fever and vomiting. He said that all the students from Kerala had carried negative reports of Covid with them and tested negative on arrival. However, health department officials said that it is difficult to check the authenticity of the RT-PCR report.
“It is possible that he actually tested negative 72 hours before leaving Kerala,” said an expert helping the state government on Covid management. “If the infection is in the incubation stage and the virus load is low, it is possible that the RT-PCR test gives a negative report, but the person will actually be infected and eventually test positive.”
The fact that some students tested negative through RT-PCR method but positive through RAT created confusion among them, but BBMP has clarified that they are COVID-positive and test based on viral load Results may vary. BBMP officials said they are checking the vaccination status of the students.
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