Teacher tests positive in Aurangabad city school

Aurangabad: A 57-year-old teacher associated with a school run by the SB Education Society, Aurangabad, has tested positive for Covid, prompting school authorities to suspend classes till December 26.
Ramnath Thore, the education officer with Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), said the teacher is in his early 50s and has only mild symptoms.
“Covid testing of nearly 300 students along with the entire staff of the school has been carried out as a precautionary measure.No one from the school has any Covid-like symptoms so far,” he said.
School managing committee president Pramod Mane on Thursday said all close contacts of the patient have been asked to be in home quarantine for five days. “The infected teacher did not come in contact with students,” he said.
School principal Maruti Patil said all the classrooms and the entire campus have been sanitised.
In the wake of the incident, AMC officials have asked all schools in Aurangabad to follow Covid prevention norms and ensure compliance with the SOP shared by the state government and the civic administration.