In Kadapa district, as many as 38 students of a private school tested positive three days back.
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KAKINADA/KADAPA: At least 14 students and two staff members of two government welfare hostels in East Godavari district tested positive for Covid-19.
In the first instance, around 11 students of Social Welfare Junior College hostel at Krishnunivani palem in Gokavaram mandal of East Godavari district tested positive for the virus.
According to District Medical and Health Officer Dr Gowreswara Rao, the hostel has 42 students, of those 11 students caught Covid virus.
A separate isolation room was allocated to all the affected students, he said.
Swab sample of woman returnee from UK sent to Pune for new strain test
By Santosh Patnaik| Published: 24th December 2020 8:17 pm IST (PTI Photo/Kamal Singh)
Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh Government on Thursday denied reports that a woman had fled a quarantine centre in New Delhi after testing positive for new variant of Coronavirus following her arrival from the United Kingdom.
The reports had stated that after fleeing the quarantine centre, she boarded a train from Delhi to Visakhapatnam along with her son on December 21.
Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas, Minister for Health, told reporters that she had been tested positive in antigen and RT-PCR test for COVID-19 conducted at the Delhi International Airport. “She is stable and asymptomatic whereas her son, 22, who travelled with her from Delhi, is tested negative,” he said ruling out that she had any sign of new variant of Coronavirus found in the United Kingdom. In the tests conducted at Rajahmundry, the test results