Chennai: The IIT Madras management has identified a COVID-19 cluster after 58 students and staff members tested positive for coronavirus between January 5 and 9. The positive patients were sent to a government quarantine facility, while some of them opted for home quarantine.
According to a report in Times of India, IIT-M director Bhaskar Ramamurthy said, the institute is following everything suggested by the Chennai Corporation and doctors.
All students who returned to campus after January 1 have been asked to remain in quarantine for a week, following which the institute said they will not be allowed to attend classes and laboratories if they produce a negative COVID-19 certificate. will be allowed.
Meanwhile, an official said, the students have only mild or no symptoms, so we have arranged isolation facilities for the students and the cases were reported only last week.
In the first week of January, around 67 students tested positive at the Madras Institute of Technology campus in Chromepet.
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Meanwhile, around 21 police personnel in Greater Chennai Police limits tested positive for coronavirus on Monday. A Times of India report said that in the last week, a total of 70 police personnel in Chennai contracted the infection and over 300 personnel are undergoing treatment across the state.
All the police personnel tested positive despite taking the Covid-19 vaccine. So far, 95 per cent of the police personnel have taken the first dose, while 87 per cent have taken the second dose.
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