9 students test positive for Covid-19 in Tirupur

Coimbatore: A total of nine students tested positive for Covid-19 in Tirupur district on Monday.
As per instructions from the district collector to close schools that report more than three cases for three days, two schools were closed for three days on Monday.
While one school reported four cases, another reported three cases, and two more schools reported one positive case each.
Four girl students of Class XII from the government higher secondary school at Veerapandi tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday.
“Two girls and a boy of Class XI from the Arignar Anna government higher secondary school at Vellakovil tested positive for the virus on Monday. The school has been closed till Wednesday for disinfection work,” district chief education officer R Ramesh said.
Since the reopening of schools early this month, 45 students and 15 teachers have tested positive in the district. All the students have shown mild symptoms. “We are closely monitoring whether the schools are following standard operating procedures (SOPs) laid out by the state government,” Tirupur collector S Vineeth said.
As children are meeting after a long time, they tend to forget social distancing. But we have asked the schools to strictly follow SOPs, he said.
The virus spread is limited, and we could not see any clusters emerging, he added.