Odisha: 'No Covid Outbreak', Says Rayagada DM After 66 School Students Test Positive

New Delhi: With Coronavirus cases increasing across the country, now 66 school students have been found infected with the deadly virus on Sunday. According to an ANI report, as many as 66 school students living in two hostels in Odisha's Rayagada district tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday. The officials said that the students were found positive after the random testing was done but they are asymptomatic. Rayagada District Magistrate Saroj Kumar Mishra said that precautions have been taken and the situation is under control.

He later informed that the infected students have been isolated. According to Rayagada District Magistrate Saroj Kumar Mishra precautions have been taken and there is no Covid outbreak in the area, The situation is under control, he added.

"There is no corona outbreak as such. But during random testing, we found some positive cases in two residential hostels, and 66 students were found positive. The students have no symptoms and have been isolated. However, we are sending their samples to the state headquarters for rechecking. Medical teams have been deployed in the hostels," said Saroj Kumar Mishra.

44 students in Anwesha hostel studying in nine different English medium schools of Rayagada have tested positive for the virus while another 22 students of Hatamuniguda Hostel were found to have contracted the virus in the Bismam Katak block of the Rayagada district.

Dr Satyanarayan Panigrahi, Bhubaneswar, State Public Health Department, who came to take stock of the situation said, "The children are perfectly all right. All the positive cases there being taken care of and are being provided with adequate medicine. All of them are now symptoms-free. The situation is fully under control necessary steps are being taken care with the district administration."

As per reports, 257 inmates of Anwesha Hostel at Kotlaguda were made to undergo an RT-PCR test by the rapid response team of the Health Department on May 4. Among them, 44 tested positive for COVID. The district magistrate immediately directed the hostel authorities to take prevention measures after receiving the report. Anwesha hostel is run by the Tribal Affairs Department of the Odisha government.

(with ANI inputs)