COVID-19: 84 IAS trainees at LBSNAA, Mussoorie test positive for coronavirus infection
LBSNAA: COVID-19 infected IAS trainees have been isolated and the rest quarantined at the LBSNAA academy in Uttarakhand
Press Trust of India | January 19, 2022 | 04:16 PM IST
DEHRADUN: As many as 84 IAS trainees at Mussoorie's Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration have tested positive for the novel coronavirus infection, officials said on Wednesday. Those infected have been isolated and the rest quarantined at the academy, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Manoj Upreti said.
A group of 480 IAS trainees, including those of allied services, arrived here on Sunday from Gujarat on way to the Academy , he said. Reports of their RT-PCR tests conducted at the Dehradun Railway Station on arrival have come positive, he said.
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Meanwhile, 25 personnel at the state police headquarters here have also tested positive for the infection. DGP Ashok Kumar asked the infected personnel to take precautions besides asking those who had come into contact with them to undergo RT-PCR tests and quarantine themselves. As all police department personnel have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, all of them have mild symptoms only, the CMO said.
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Uttarakhand COVID Cases
Uttarakhand had on Tuesday reported 4,482 positive cases, the highest single-day caseload in the state in eight months. As many as 20,620 active COVID cases are prevalent in Uttarakhand as of January 18. The COVID death toll in the state till now is 7450, says data shared by the Uttarakhand health department.
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