Kangra district in the last month, reported news agency PTI on Friday. The number of Covid-infected students, which was 362 on Thursday, rose to 408 on Friday with 46 more students testing positive in the last 24 hours, said Kangra CMO Dr Gurdarshan Gupta.
A 13-year-old girl student died of Covid-19 in the district on 21 October. She had caught the infection after attending a wedding.
The district health authorities said the girl had not been attending school since 12 October. Her family sought medical help only after her condition deteriorated.
Further, while 49 teachers had been infected with Covid till Thursday, the test results of a few more are awaited, he added. "We are worried about the increasing number of students and