BIHARSHARIF: Three coaching institute owners were arrested under Town police station area on Wednesday for violating the Covid guidelines, SHO Deepak Kumar said. Nalanda district education officer (DEO) Manoj Kumar had lodeged a written complaint against them.
The DEO, at the instruction of Nalanda DM Yogendra Kumar Singh, raided different localities in Biharsharif and found various educational institutions violating the Covid guidelines as the number of active cases in Nalanda stood at 91 on Wednesday.
Coaching institutes located in Tikulipar and Dhaneshwar Ghat localities were open but agreed to close their institutions, but the owners of three institutes refused to follow the guidelines, leading to their arrest.
Amid the police action, Nalanda reported 22 fresh Covid cases.
Nalanda civil surgeon, four health workers, seven students and staff members of Nalanda Sainik School, four employees of Nalanda coach factory, Harnaut, besides a doctor couple and a medical staff had tested positive recently after receiving two doses of vaccine against coronavirus.
The administration carried sanitisation and other related works in the 35 micro containment zones in the district.
According to the district immunization officer, Dr Ram Sahay, around 4,000 persons of 45+ age group received Covid shots on Wednesday. The number of beneficiaries on Tuesday was over 12,000. Officials attributed the less number of vaccinations on Wednesday to the shortage of vaccines. A total of 1,60,000 beneficiaries have been inoculated in Nalanda since the launch of drive on January 16 this year, said Sahay.