As many as 150 students of three government residential schools located within one campus in Gujarat’s Surat district suffered from a viral infection and 18 of them, all girls, were hospitalised with fever, officials said today (February 9).
Wadi village in Umarpada taluka has a cluster of three residential schools with over 650 male and female students. Chief District Health Officer Dr Anil Patel said 150 of these students contracted upper respiratory tract infections with symptoms of cough and fever over the past three to four days.
