THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even as people of Thiruvananthapuram are going through anxious days, watching the sharp rise in Covid cases day by day, this photo snapped from a location in the city has irked people.

In the photo, hundreds of students can be seen jostling to come out of a school after writing some exam.

The place is Pattom St Mary’s school. KEAM entrance was held here today (Thursday). The video of this incident is also available.

Though people are supposed to follow Covid protocol everywhere, flouting of the guidelines is happening every now and then.

The exam held in Kerala, Mumbai, New Delhi and Dubai on Thursday, was attended by 1.03 lakh students through 343 centres.

Though KSRTC vehicles were arranged for them, most of them came in their own vehicles.

No one was there in the college to ensure that students strictly followed social distancing rule.

On Monday, in Thiruvananthapuram alone, 339 contracted the disease. Out of that, 301 got the disease through contact. The total number of Covid cases also crossed 1000 in the district.