Tribune News Service Patiala February 26 After four staff members tested Covid positive a government school was shut in Rajpura. The Health Department said four teachers tested Covid positive today during random sampling at Government School Nalas Rajpura. Following detection of the coronavirus cases the Health Department passed orders to shut school for the next 48 hours. We have started contact tracing of the positive patients and ordered sanitisation of the school. — Dr Satinder Singh Civil Surgeon Patiala The Patiala Civil Surgeon Dr Satinder Singh said they had started contact tracing of the positive patients and ordered sanitisation of the school. Besides a teacher at Government Senior Secondary School Tripuri also tested positive for the coronavirus. Notably around 65 teachers and dozen students have tested Covid positive this month in Patiala alone. Meanwhile 45 Covid positive cases were reported in Patiala today thereby taking the total count to 17 003. Of the 45 cases nine are contacts of positive patients. Besides 36 people with flu-like symptoms also tested positive for the disease. Dr Satinder Singh said many school teachers had tested positive for the disease. Therefore they had issued directions to all schools to follow Covid norms he added.

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