Bondolfi Teachers’ College in Masvingo is now under lockdown after eighteen students tested positive for coronavirus.

The entire student population of over 300 was put under quarantine following the unprecedented positive tests.

Authorities in the Ministry of Health and Child Care have, however, cautioned against panicking saying the situation was being attended to.

Meanwhile, Masvingo COVID-19 taskforce provincial spokesperson Rodgers Irimai says authorities are currently scrambling to assess the situation and its ramifications on the war against the pandemic.

He cautioned that the situation was under control with all the 303 on-boarding students under mandatory quarantine for two weeks.

The government recently put Kwekwe District in the Midlands Province under lockdown after cases of the B.1.617 coronavirus variant or Indian variant were detected in Kwekwe City early this month.-The Herald