5 students who wrote KEAM exam in Kerala contract coronavirus – education

At the very least 5 of the greater than 88,000 students, who took up the Kerala Engineering Structure Medical (KEAM) examination held not too long ago throughout the state, have examined constructive for COVID-19.

Whereas three students have been discovered to be contaminated by the virus on July 21, two others examined constructive on Wednesday, district officers stated.

The state authorities has been dealing with criticism from the Opposition events for holding the exam regardless of the excessive prevalence of COVID-19 circumstances in the state.

In the meantime, a case has been registered in opposition to at the least 300 folks for gathering outdoors one of many exam centres in town to obtain their wards after the exam on July 16.

“The case was registered on July 17 after the image of the crowdappeared in certainly one of thenewspapers.

The case was filed for not adhering to the COVID-19 well being protocol in public area,” a police official informed PTI.

Leaders of opposition events have flayed the federal government’s resolution to conduct the exam throughout the COVID-19 disaster regardless of appeals to defer it.

“This crowd of students crowding to enter an exam centre for #keam2021 have made a mockery of the social distancing norms.

A Govt which needs to fight #Covid19 wouldn’t be silly sufficient to stick with these exams when students (&this M.P.) have pleaded for his or her postponement!,” Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted together with an image of the group in entrance of an exam centres in the state capital.

A 19-year-outdated pupil, who appeared for the exam at Thycaud authorities academics coaching faculty and an 18-year- outdated who sat for the exam on the Authorities Ladies Increased Secondary Faculty in Karamana are the 2 who have examined constructive right here.

District officers stated the contact tracing of the coed at Thycaud has been performed as he took up the take a look at with 20 others.

“Out of the 88,500 students, solely three examined constructive on Tuesday. One pupil was already beneath commentary and wrote the exam in a separate room.

The one in Thiruvananthapuram appeared for it together with different students,” Vijayan stated.

The third pupil was from Kozhikode.

Additionally, the daddy of a candidate, who accompanied his son to the exam centre at Cotton Hill college, has examined constructive.

He had remained on the college premises until the examination was over.

On Wednesday, two students, one every from Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram, examined constructive.

Kerala on Tuesday reported 720 recent circumstances of COVID-19 taking the entire variety of contaminated individuals in the state to 13,994.

Out of the 720 constructive circumstances, 528 have been contaminated from their contacts.