50 students from two J&K schools test positive for Covid-19

Around 50 students from two schools in Jammu and Kashmir have tested positive for Covid-19. The schools were then promptly shut down by authorities.

The authorities of Jammu and Kashmir shut down two schools as a contact-tracing programme was initiated after as many as 50 students from two different schools in South Kashmir tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday. At least 36 students of the primary classes of Noorani Public School in the Khull area of Kulgam tested positive on Wednesday. The district health services conducted random testing at the school after six of the teachers from its senior wing were found infected with Covid-19 on Monday. "We found that 36 students up to class 5 were positive. Even a grandparent who had come to collect his ward from the school has tested positive for Covid-19," she said, as per PTI reports.