54 students test Covid-19 positive at school in Haryana's Karnal -Today News..

 More than 50 students of a school in Haryana's Karnal have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), news agency ANI reported citing a medical official on Tuesday. “Fifty-four students of a school hostel have tested positive for Covid-19... Our medical teams have reached the spot and the hostel is being marked as a containment zone,” Yogesh Kumar Sharma, Karnal’s civil surgeon, was quoted as saying by ANI.

© Getty GURUGRAM, INDIA - FEBRUARY 1: A student undergoes thermal screening before entering Model Senior Secondary School Urban Estate at Sector 4, on February 1, 2021 in Gurugram, India. Schools in Gurugram reopened for 6th to 8th standard today. (Photo by Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Haryana had allowed students from Classes 9 to 12 to go to return to schools in December and reopened for those from Classes 3 to 5 from February 24. The government also decided to start regular classes for Classes 1 and 2 from Monday. It said in an official statement that the school timings will be from 10am to 1.30 pm. Parents have been asked to submit a consent letter to the school head or class teacher before sending their children to schools. And those who want their children to continue classes online can to do so, it said.

Schools have been asked have to follow all Covid-19 related guidelines and standard operating procedures (SOPs). The statement said that each school will be divided into three wings. If a student in a wing is found to be Covid-19 positive, that wing will be closed for 10 days and the entire school will be sanitised, it added. If students in more than one wing are found to be infected, the entire school will be closed for 10 days, it also said.

According to a health department bulletin on Monday, 166 new cases of Covid-19 pushed the infection count to 270,950 and the state’s death toll rose to 3,050 after two people died because of the coronavirus disease.