Jodhpur: As many as 269 students of IIT-Jodhpur returning to the campus have tested positive for COVID-19 since February 2, the officials informed on Wednesday.
A total of 3,000 RT-PCR tests were carried out till May 10 to curb the spread of the infection as students continue to arrive on the campus for practical exams.
Out of the 269 students testing COVID positive, 240 have fully recovered while the remaining 29 are in the recovery process and are in isolation, informed Deputy Registrar Amardeep Sharma.
“In view of the surging second wave and arrival of the students for their laboratory exercises, we had drawn an aggressive plan for screening and testing these students in order to keep them safe and the campus free from the infection,” Sharma was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
“Only after obtaining a negative RT-PCR report, they are allotted rooms in regular hostels after the seventh day, provided they had no symptoms. If found positive, students are being shifted to a super-isolation facility for the next 14 days,” the deputy registrar added.
The IIT-Jodhpur is presently hosting 25 per cent of its total strength of students who have been waiting for the lockdown to lift to return to their homes.
A total of 29 students and staff members at the institute tested COVID-19 positive on Monday.
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