57 Girls At Government-Run Shelter Home In Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Test Positive For Coronavirus

57 girls who live at a government-run shelter in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus in the past week. This means the institution is now a coronavirus cluster in a town already battling a high caseload. All 57 girls have been shifted to COVID-19 hospitals. Staff and those girls not infected have been quarantined and the entire facility has been sealed. A controversy had also erupted on June 21, after local media outlets reported that at least two of the girls were found to be pregnant during a medical examination. This raised questions about the shelter that is supposed to protect them. However, the Kanpur District Magistrate later clarified that although five of those who had tested positive were, in fact, pregnant, their pregnancies occurred before they were admitted to the shelter in December last year. Kanpur with 400 active coronavirus cases is the second-highest in the state. Only Noida, in the National Capital Region, has more with 577 cases. Uttar Pradesh has 18,322 cases of which 6,152 cases are active.