Forty-three students of Chalmeda Anand Rao Institute of Medical Sciences at Bommakal in Karimnagar district of Telangana have tested positive for Coivd-19 after the college held a annual day function.
Authorities have now suspended classes and shut down the campus.
The annual day function was held over a week ago, and could have been the source of so many students getting infected.
Amid rising ‘Omicron’ threat, cases of the new variant of coronavirus might increase between January and February in Telangana, said State Director of Public Health and Family Welfare Srinivas Rao on Sunday.
Rao said, “As we have seen in South Africa, The Omicron varient is increasing with four times the intensity to 16 times within a span of 1 week to 10 days.
“Since the past two days it is stable, but with this variant the hospitalization rate and the death rate is low, which is a big relief.
“But this variant has a characteristic of fast-spreading,and we should be very careful.
“From 10 countries, the variant has spread to 35 countries with 450 or 500 cases, so we have to wait and watch hos the variant is going to behave in the coming days.
“So with that assumption and epidemiological perspective we expect a bit of a surge in January or February in our country and state,” said the health Director.
Rao added that the surveillance mechanism has been strengthened at the international airport in Hyderabad.
