Vadodara: 470 cadets at PTS under quarantine

VADODARA: A day after 19 trainee cops of Police Training School (PTS) at Lalbaug tested positive for coronavirus, 25 other cadets, who are suspected to have been infected, submitted their swab samples at SSG Hospital (SSG) on Saturday.
The cases in the school have raised concern as around 470 cadets staying there who have been put under quarantine.
Nineteen cadets from the school had tested positive on Friday evening and they have been admitted at the SSG Hospital. Screening of the remaining students had revealed on Friday itself that some of them were having fever or upper respiratory tract infections.
Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) officials said that after the screening of all the cadets on the campus, 238 had been given hydroxychloroquine tablets as a prophylaxis. All those on the campus have been given homeopathic medicine that can build immunity.
VMC's medical officer (health) Dr Devesh Patel said that seven cases of fever and nine cases of cough and cold were found during the screening on the campus.
According to PTS officials, the 25 new cadets have been kept under quarantine at the state-run hospital and they will return to their barracks in the training school only after their test reports turn out to be negative. "We have already suspended training for all cadets for a week and are following all protocols to stop spread of virus within the institutions," said inspector general of police and principal of the school H R Chaudhary.
The cadets are now being sent barrack-wise for their meals to the mess. "We have three barracks so cadets are being sent one barrack after the another for food and they all sit at social distancing," Chaudhary added.