3 new COVID-19 clusters with 19 cases detected in Bengaluru
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Three new COVID-19 clusters, all in the Yelahanka zone, with a complete of 19 optimistic cases have been detected in Bengaluru on Friday. This takes the general variety of such teams to 6 over the previous two weeks.
Two of the clusters have been detected in instructional establishments: 5 cases at Agragami College and 9 college students examined optimistic at Sambhram Academy of Management Studies. The third one, with 5 cases, is in a residential advanced, Purva Venezia flats.
BBMP Commissioner N. Manjunath Prasad mentioned the detection of new cases was the results of elaborate testing taken up throughout instructional establishments the place college students from neighbouring states, particularly Kerala and Maharashtra, research. Testing has been intensified, particularly in nursing faculties, the place many of the college students hail from Kerala. As per conservative estimates, there have been almost 18,000 nursing college students in completely different faculties in town.
In the final three days, as many as 1,156 college students have been examined at Sambhram Academy of Management Studies, of whom 9 have been discovered to have contracted COVID-19. Similarly, at Agragami College, of the 217 college students who have been examined, 5 have been reported to have COVID-19.
BBMP’s Special Commissioner (Health) Rajendra Cholan mentioned one other cluster had been reported at Purva Venezia flats. A complete of 111 residents have been examined of whom 5 have been optimistic. “As per investigations, on the source of the infection, we believe it spread from a family who had travelled from Mumbai to the city,” he mentioned.
According to Mr. Prasad, although some college students from the neighbouring States had come to town with a COVID-19 detrimental report, they examined optimistic just a few days later. “If more than five cases are reported from one location, it is termed as a cluster. The cases in the other three clusters have not increased,” he mentioned.
The metropolis’s first cluster was reported on February 13 at Manjushree College of Nursing in Kaval Byrasandra, the place 40 college students examined optimistic simply days after the faculty reopened. In the second cluster at SNN Raj Lakeview, an condominium advanced in Bilekahalli, a complete of 108 residents examined optimistic. Another cluster was reported at SJR Watermark (*19*) at Ambalipura, the place 27 residents examined optimistic for COVID-19.
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