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Maharashtra: 45 people including five employees of a hostel tested positive for coronavirus in Latur

| @indiablooms | Feb 24, 2021, at 02:52 pm

Aurangabad/UNI: As many as 45 students, including five employees of a hostel, tested positive for coronavirus in Latur city of Marathwada region of Maharashtra state on Tuesday , said Latur district health officer Dr Laxman Deshmukh.

Report reaching from Latur stated that ,over 300 students who live in the hostel underwent COVID-19 test, of which 40 have contracted the infection as well as five staff of hostel.

All the infected students and employees have been quarantined at Covid centre at Barshi road which was decleared prohibited area and surrounding schools has been closed down as a precautionary measures.

The infected students are from Classes IX and X, he said. Sixty teaching and non-teaching staff work on the hostel premises, and of these 30 underwent the test and five are infected, he added.

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