Telangana: Six more test Covid positive at ZP High School in Mamidipally

HYDERABAD: Four more students, a teacher and a watchman of Zilla Parishad High School (ZPHS), Mamidipally in Nadigama in Ranga Reddy district tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday. In total, 10 (students and staff) have tested positive in the school.
“A total of 63 people, both students and staff, were tested on Tuesday and six are positive,” said a teacher from the school, adding that the students (two each) are from class 9 and 10. The teacher said that another 30 students were yet to be tested as they were absent on Tuesday. “We were asked to prepare a list of students along with their addresses so that the health department can track and test them,” the teacher added.
As per directions of health officials a school needs to be closed temporarily if more than five cases are reported, but teachers said that officials at district level asked them to continue with physical classes for now.
“Teachers and students are scared as 10 have already tested positive. Shutting school for two to three days for sanitisation will help us, but we did not get permission from the officials,” said a teacher.
P Suseendra Rao, district education officer (DEO), Ranga Reddy, meanwhile, said that he has already informed the collector about the school. “The school has already been sanitised, all students have been tested. We are pursuing the matter and will decide whether or not to temporarily shut the school,” said the DEO.
While at Government High School, Mudfort, no fresh cases have been reported as all the 131 students who were tested on Tuesday were negative. Attendance percentage, however, went down as only 131 students attended physical classes on Tuesday as against 328 on Friday, a day before the principal (in-charge) tested positive.