Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (MS)
Mangaluru, Nov 23: It is almost a week since colleges have started conducting classes for students in the district of Dakshina Kannada district. Till the night of Saturday, November 21,16,441 students are tested for coronavirus and 29 students are confirmed to have tested positive for the virus.
Out of 29 students confirmed corona-positive, 16 are from Mangaluru, four from Sullia, seven from Bantwal and one each from Beltangady and Puttur. None of these students have any other health complications. They are advised to be in home quarantine. Some are quarantined in the hostels of the respective institutions.
Covid tests are being conducted at eight primary health care centres in the district and report is being readied in labs of eight private and one government hospital according to the information conveyed by DHO Dr Ramachandra Bayari.