Amid rising cases of coronavirus, Jharkhand Health Minister Banna Gupta urged the Centre to provide at least 50,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to continue with the immunisation drive in the state.
Eight girls from Class 12 and two from class 11 tested positive for Covid-19 on May 4, while another was detected Covid-19 positive on Thursday in a school in Jharkhand.
As many as 11 students of Kasturba Gandhi Girls Residential School in Jharkhand's Chatra district were tested positive for Covid-19 in the past two days, officials said on Friday.