Indore Nov 24 PTI Nine more fully-vaccinated Army officers participating in a course at the Indian Institute of Management IIM here in Madhya Pradesh tested positive for coronavirus taking the number of the infected officers pursuing this course to 11 in the last four days a health official said on Wednesday These Army officers are pursuing a six-month certificate course in Business Management for Defence Officers CCBMDO at IIM In the last 24 hours nine more Army officers tested positive for coronavirus They are taking part in a course at the IIM Indore chief medical and health officer CMHO Dr B S Saitya said The infected officers have taken both the doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and were asymptomatic he said adding that the officers had not travelled outside the district recently The officers had arrived in the city two-and-a-half months ago to pursue the CCBMDO course Saitya said Indores COVID-19 nodal officer Dr Amit Malakar said four Army officers were found infected with coronavirus in the last two days and among them two are part of the IIM course All COVID-19 infected officers were undergoing treatment at the Army hospital in the Mhow cantonment area he said As a precautionary measure the IIM administration has stopped offline classes for the CCBMDO course Participants of this course will be taught online IIM director professor Himanshu Rai said He said all 60 participants of the course were not staying at the IIM campus A separate classroom was arranged for them on the campus Meanwhile health officials informed that 13 people including the nine Army officers had tested positive for coronavirus in Indore in the last 24 hours taking the number of infections to 153312 including 1393 casualties PTI HWP MAS ARU NSK NSK

Indore Nov 23 PTI Four fully-vaccinated Army officers two of them participating in a course of the Indian Institute of Management IIM tested positive for coronavirus in Madhya Pradeshs Indore district an official said on Tuesday Four Army officers have tested positive for coronavirus in the last three days in Indore They had received both doses of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine They have no symptoms and their condition is fine said Dr Amit Malakar nodal officer COVID-19 Indore He said two of the infected officers are residents of the Army Cantonment located in nearby Mhow town and two others are enrolled for the IIM Indores Certificate Course in Business Management for Defence Officers CCBMDO Meanwhile the IIM administration has decided to stop the offline classes and will conduct them virtually As a precautionary measure we have decided to conduct online classes instead of offline for a batch of 60 participants of CCBMDO course after some of them tested positive for the pandemic IIM Indore director Himanshu Rai said He however said that participants in the current batch of CCBMDO were not staying at the IIM campus A separate classroom was arranged on the campus for them he added Those who had come in contact with the participating Army officers during the study at the IIM campus have tested negative for coronavirus he said In another development a 69-year-old fully vaccinated woman succumbed to the COVID-19 infection in Indore on Saturday Malakar said adding that she died at Mhows Military Hospital With the latest fatality the number of people who have succumbed to COVID-19 in the Indore district so far went up to 1393 Indore district recorded 153299 COVID-19 cases since March 24 2020 PTI HWP ADU NSK NSK