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Ludhiana: With as many as 40 students of various schools in the district testing positive for coronavirus last week, the spread of Covid-19 among the students has emerged as a big challenge for the authorities.
Although cases of infection among teachers and students have been reported since the reopening of schools last month, the rate of students testing positive has increased of late. Of the 86 students found infected with the virus in various schools of the district, nearly half (40) were tested positive last week only, according a health department data.
All the cases of infection among students reported last week came from two schools, including Government Senior Secondary School, Chaunta, from where 37 cases have been reported till now, while seven cases have surfaced in a private school in Samrala. A female teacher and a male peon of the Chauta school also tested positive last week.
Ludhiana: With school students testing positive for Covid-19, the health department officials are facing resistance in collecting samples of their con.
Ludhiana: Two days after 15 students and two staff members of Government Senior Secondary School, Chaunta were tested positive for Covid-19, another 1.
Ludhiana: Fifteen students and two employees of Government Senior Secondary School, Chaunta village, have tested positive for Covid-19 since Monday late evening. With this, the number of district students contracting the virus in the past about a month has crossed 50.
Since the second fortnight of January, about 35 teachers of government schools in the district have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. A teacher of Government Senior Secondary school, Ghalib Kalan, Jagraon, had died of the disease on January 23. Twenty-seven students of the Ghalib Kalan school had also contracted the virus. Fifteen students of Government Senior Secondary School, Sekhewal, had tested positive during this month.