Covid spreads in another school in Ranga Reddy dist

Hyderabad: Covid-19 appears to have begun targeting students across the state with yet another small cluster outbreak of the disease reported from Ranga Reddy district on Monday. Four students from the Government High School in Mamidpalli village of Nandigama mandal of the district tested positive for Covid-19, district education authorities said.

The rest of the students and staff of the school have tested negative and those afflicted by the disease are at home, officials said.

Monday’s Covid-19 cases in an educational institution in the state — the fifth such outbreak in less than a month — takes to 159 the total cases in schools and colleges in Telangana since November 21, when the first such outbreak was reported from Wyra town of Khammam district where 28 students in a government residential school were found to have caught Covid-19.

The Wyra outbreak was followed by another 30 Covid-19 cases — 25 students and five staff — at the Mahindra University in the city on November 27. Soon after, on November 29, another 47 students, and a teacher, at one more government residential school in Muthangi of Sangareddy district were declared as having caught Covid.

It was just on Sunday that a large Covid outbreak was reported from the Chalmeda Anand Rao Institute of Medical Sciences, a privately-run medical college in Bommakal village of Karimnagar district, where by Monday, the total cases rose to 49, according to health department officials.