90 students of IIT Roorkee test positive for Covid-19
90 students from IIT Roorkee have tested positive for covid-19 in the last few days and 5 hostels of IIT Roorkee have been sealed. IIT Roorkee administration has directed students to isolate themselves in their rooms and has turned one of its hostels into Covid-19 care centre.
The Haridwar District Health Department has sealed five hostels of IIT Roorkee namely Coral, Kasturba, Sarojni, Govind Bhawan and Vigyan Kunj and declared them as containment zones.
IIT Roorkee's Media cell in charge, Sonika Srivastava said that "The institute has about three thousand students out of which 1200 students live in these five hostels. At present, all students are being treated in the hostel.The students who were preparing to come to the IITs, have been stopped till the next orders. All the students present on the premises have been instructed to take precautions". He Further added that the students have been kept under isolation and online classes of the institutes have not been disrupted. Meanwhile the institute is strictly adhering to all the Covid-19 norms and precautions given by the state government.
On Thursday Uttarakhand reported 787 new covid-19 cases.
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