Earlier this week, 39 students and five employees of a hostel in Latur district of Marathwada had tested positiveAs many as 229 students and four staff from a school hostel in Maharashtra’s Washim district in the Vidarbha region have tested positive for COVID-19,district authorities said on Thursday. According to sources, around 20 students had tested positive last week after which all the 327 students were made to take the RT-PCR test. Earlier, 39 students and five employees of a hostel in Latur district in Marathwada region, too, had tested positive. Authorities in Satara district in western Maharashtra said 35 students across 16 schools had tested positive. “A total 800 of 830 district schools [secondary and higher secondary combined] are still functioning with a student attendance of 57%.

Source: The Hindu February 25, 2021 08:33 UTC