Six patients, including 4 in Bengaluru and 1 each in Dharwad and Tumakuru districts, however, succumbed to the infection, taking the state s death toll to 12,282 since the pandemic broke out in March, 2020.
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Bengaluru: 40 nursing college students test positive for coronavirus
At least 40 students of a private nursing college in Bengaluru have tested positive for the coronavirus, health officials said. The officials on Saturday said that most of these students are from Kerala and the mass testing will be carried out in all the nursing and medical colleges of the city from February 14 to 20.
Bengaluru s civic body Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad inspected the college and inquired about the measures initiated by authorities to tackle these cases.
Prasad also appealed to the state government to make it mandatory for all the students coming to the city s educational institutions, to carry a negative Covid-19 test certificate that should not be older than 72 hours.
The Covid tally in Bengaluru crossed the 4-lakh mark, with 250 testing positive in a day and taking the city s virus tally to 4,00,565, including 3,897 active cases, said the state health bulletin on Sunday.