85 test positive for Corona in Nainital district’s Navodaya Vidyalaya
In Suyalbari Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, located in Bhawali-Almora NH of Nainital district, the entire Suyalbari area has been made a containment zone after 85 students were found corona infected together on Saturday. They have been isolated in the school itself. On Sunday, samples of all the students will be sent to Delhi for Omicron test.
At present there are 600 students in Suyalbari Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya. Recently, as a precautionary measure, all the students got corona test done in the school. On Wednesday, three students were found positive, while on Thursday eight students and the principal of the school were also confirmed to have corona. Corona sampling in-charge Girish Pandey said that 85 more students have been found corona infected in the report received on Saturday.
The administration has made the entire Suyalbari area a containment zone. After six months in Uttarakhand, the number of corona patients has crossed a hundred. On Saturday, 118 new patients were found across the state while one infected died. 34 patients recovered after treatment, taking the number of active patients to 367. Earlier on July 3, 158 infected were found in the state. Since then, for the first time on Saturday, more than a hundred new corona patients have been found in the state in a single day.
Infection rate doubled in a month
The rate of infection has also doubled in the state as compared to last month. The rate of corona infection in the state was 0.37 percent on December 1, which was 0.78 percent on Saturday. The increase in corona patients had started in the state from the last few weeks. But since a week there is a trend of rapid increase in it. Now on Saturday, there is a state of panic due to getting more than a hundred cases in the state in a single day.
