49 test +ve in Pinegrove School

Tribune News Service

Solan, April 18

With 49 staff and students testing positive in Pinegrove School, Mangoti Mor near Dharampur, the total number of positive cases has climbed to 150 in its two schools. Solan district recorded the highest number of 171 cases in the state today.

Deputy Commissioner, Solan, KC Chaman, said, “The situation is alarming at Pinegrove Schools at Dharampur and Subathu where 49 fresh cases have taken the number of positive cases among staff and students to 150 today. It is worrisome to note that children as young as seven years too figure in the list. Both schools have been declared containment zones.”

Besides, 10 cases have been reported from Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, 15 from Ultra Tech Cement Plant, Panali village in Arki sub-division, six from Rashtriya Military School, Chail, seven from Vikas Mohalla at Solan which has been declared a micro containment zone.

The large number of cases emerging from the educational institutes, especially residential, has increased the worry of the district administration as young children were testing positive along with the staff.

Meanwhile, the covid situation in the state continues to remain grim with 788 fresh cases being reported today, besides 10 death in the last 24 hours.

The number of active cases shot up to 8,696, with the total positive cases till now being 76,375. Ten persons, including five in Kangra, two in Shimla and one each in Sirmaur, Kinnaur and Mandi, succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours.

The highest number of 171 cases was reported in Solan, 133 in Kangra, 108 in Mandi, 93 in Sirmaur, 72 in Kullu, 67 in Una, 66 in Hamirpur, 33 in Chamba, 21 in Shimla, 11 in Lahaul-Spiti and two in Kinnaur.