40 nursing college students test positive for coronavirus in B’luru

Bengaluru, Feb 14 : At least 40 students of a private nursing college in Bengaluru have tested positive for the coronavirus, health officials said.
The officials on Saturday said that that most of these students are from Kerala and the mass testing will be carried out in all the nursing and medical colleges of the city from February 14 to 20.
Bengaluru’s civic body Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad inspected the college and inquired about the measures initiated by authorities to tackle these cases.
Prasad also appealed to the state government to make it mandatory for all the students coming to the city’s educational institutions, to carry a negative Covid-19 test certificate that should not be older than 72 hours.
The Karnataka government announced that students coming from Kerala to Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Mysuru, Kodagu and Chamarajanagar districts must get an RTPCR negative test report.
The Commissioner said the Pulakeshi Nagar nursing college has a total of 210 students and majority are from Kerala.