111 test positive in Manipal Institute of Technology campus

Bengaluru: In a serious Covid cluster outbreak, 111 college students examined constructive within the Manipal Institute of Know-how (MIT) campus in Udupi district. With this, the entire variety of instances linked to the cluster has gone as much as 483. Fever clinics and testing amenities have been arrange contained in the MIT campus by Kasturba Medical Faculty (KMC), a constituent faculty of Manipal Academy of Larger Training (MAHE). “We are attempting to minimise the additional unfold of the an infection and isolate the scholars who examined constructive. We’ll look forward to all of the take a look at outcomes and will probably be scrutinising the scholars for any attainable publicity to the an infection earlier than any determination is made on permitting college students to go away the campus,” Prashant Bhat, the nodal official stated.

In the meantime, Karnataka Well being Minister Dr Ok Sudhakar stated on Thursday that from April 1, all passengers travelling to Bengaluru from any state might want to endure RT-PCR assessments and present a detrimental report earlier than they’ll enter the town. Earlier, the state authorities had made it obligatory for passengers from Punjab, Chandigarh, Maharashtra and Kerala to hold a detrimental RT-PCR take a look at report earlier than they might enter Karnataka.

He stated this determination is being taken as 60% of Bengaluru’s instances have an interstate journey historical past.

The federal government additionally stated that those that go for house isolation will probably be hand stamped, in a bid to curb infections.