As many as 24 students from Ahmedabad’s National Institute of Design (NID) tested positive for Covid-19 in the past three days, with 16 of them testing positive on Sunday.
Additional Medical Officer Health of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) Bhavin Joshi said, “As a precaution, (public) gatherings and educational activities have been discontinued at the institute till further instructions. The testing procedure is on at the institute and will be completed by tomorrow,” Joshi said.
Joshi added that none of the persons who tested positive at NID are serious or hospitalised.
In an effort to prevent the spread of the virus, the authorities have declared the new boys’ hostel and another block of the premier design institute as micro-containment zones, according to an official from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) health department.
A total of 178 students in the hostel and block-C of the institute have been isolated, he said.