32 students tested COVID-19 positive in Karnataka's Kolar
Bengaluru: Within a week after schools and PU colleges reopened in Karnataka, 32 students tested positive for COVID19 in a college in Kolar on Wednesday.
Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar is likely to visit the college following reports on Covid-19 cases in Kolar.
Reacting to Covid-19 cases at the college, Dr K Sudhakar said, "All of them are Kerala returnees. I'll visit the college and take action against the management".
The Covid-19 cases are worrisome though the Krnataka government on Monday made it mandatory for all those coming from the neighbouring state to undergo seven-day institutional quarantine.
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“The government has mandated seven-day quarantine for travellers from Kerala as a precautionary measure and on the advice of experts,” revenue minister R Ashoka said after a meeting chaired by the CM Basavaraj Bommai on Monday.
The Karnataka government reopened degree, postgraduate (PG), and technical colleges on July 26 with the condition that all students, faculty, and staff members must be vaccinated with at least one dose. Colleges in the state had been shut for about three months.
Subsequently, the Karnataka Government allowed resuming offline classes for students of 9 and 10 grades and for pre-university college students (equivalent to Classes 11 and 12) from August 23.
