As many as 68 of around 400 nursing students who had arrived from outside the State for writing examinations tested positive for COVID-19 in Ballari on Tuesday.
As per the information provided by the local authorities, most of the students, who are rom Haryana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and other northern States, had arrived in the district without a valid RT-PCR negative report obtained within the past 72 hours.
Alerted by the possibility of infection, the administration took their throat swabs and sent it to the laboratory for test.
