Jeypore: Six third-year MBBS students of Saheed Laxman Naik Medical College in Odisha’s Koraput have tested positive for COVID-19.
The hostel boarders, who have been shifted to isolation rooms, have no past travel history and might have contracted the infection after coming in touch with a COVID positive patient, sources said.
Dean of the medical college Krushna Chandra Biswal said precautionary measures are being taken to check further spread of the virus on the campus. So far, 120 of the total 500 students have been tested.
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