The Central Region on Saturday registered 67 new cases of COVID-19, involving 20 students from a government-aided school in Thanjavur. However, no deaths were reported.
Continuing the recent trend of gradual but consistent increase in cases, 20 tested positive for COVID-19 in Thanjavur on Saturday. A cluster has been identified in a government-aided school in Ammapettai that has been closed for two weeks.
A student studying at the government-aided Girls Higher Secondary School in Ammapettai succumbed to fever last week. When he tested, the result turned out to be positive.
The school authorities, with the help of the Health Department, conducted tests on March 11 for a batch of 460 students out of 1100 girls studying in ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades at the school. Twenty students tested positive; 16 were admitted to Thanjavur Medical College Hospital and four to Thiruvarur Government Medical College Hospital.
Subsequently, samples were collected on March 12 from the remaining students and teaching and non-teaching staff and were sent for testing and a two-week holiday was declared to clean the school premises.
Meanwhile, Tiruchi district registered 14 new cases on Saturday, Thiruvarur 11 and Nagapattinam 10. Karur registered eight fresh cases, a slight increase over the past few days.
Two fresh cases were reported in Pudukottai and one each in Ariyalur and Perambalur districts.
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