Authorities have closed Thillayadi Valiyamai Government High School after a teacher tested positive for COVID-19.
PT Rudra Gaur, Director of School Education, said that about 45 persons, including teachers and students of one class, will undergo a COVID examination as a precaution. The campus was cleaned and the school would reopen on Monday.
Meanwhile, the Union Territory registered 24 new cases, while 27 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours.
1,408 trials were confirmed from Puducherry (14), Karaikal (four) and Mahe (two). No case was registered in Yanam. There were 179 active cases, of which 80 were in hospitals and 99 were in isolation.
The test positivity rate was 1.7%, case fatality rate 1.68% and recovery rate 97.87%. Tally 670 deaths, a total of 39,932 cases and 39,083 patients were recovered in the Union Territory.
Out of an estimated 6.41 lakh tests conducted by the Health Department, about 5.96 lakh came back negative.
Meanwhile, the number of immunized persons in the Union Territory rose to 195953, with 155 health workers, 14 border personnel and line-75 seniors and those above 85 with underlying co-morbidity taking the first shot of vaccines. 11,294 healthcare personnel, 3,529 frontline workers and 5,130 members of the public have been covered so far.
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