Gaurav Kanthwal
Tribune News Service
Mohali, March 17
Seventeen students of Sri Sukhmani Dental College and Hospital in Dera Bassi tested positive for the novel coronavirus today. As a precautionary measure, the college has been closed for the next five days by the Health Department.
As per information, around 120 students of the college had gone on a tour to Jaisalmer recently. When they returned, some of the students complained of cough, cold and fever. Some students took the Covid test, out of which two returned positive.
The Health Department later took samples of 42 students, out of which 17 students reported positive today.
The infected students include 12 girls and five boys. Three infected boys and six infected girls live in college hostels while two boys and six girls live in different PGs at Dera Bassi.
The college hostel has been declared a micro-containment zone and all the patients have been kept in isolation.
Senior Medical Officer, Dera Bassi, Dr Sangeeta Jain said that the infected students had been instructed not to leave the hostel.
One teacher was also found positive after which samples of 32 more students have been taken today, the results of which are awaited.
It may be recalled that nine students and five staff members of the National Dental College on Gulabgarh Road here were found positive recently following which the college was closed temporarily.
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