Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath
AGRA: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday visited AMU’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College to review the prevailing Covid-19 situation in the varsity where deaths of several staff members, including 16 serving, 10 retired faculty and several non-teaching staff have been reported. The university has already sent the virus samples to ICMR to assess possibilities of any new variant in Aligarh.
Vice-chancellor of the university, Tariq Mansoor, told TOI that the CM assured all possible help in the fight against Covid-19, especially with supply of life-saving drugs, including Remdesivir and Oxygen supply.
The CM said, “Vaccination could have saved lives. The VC raised the demand for additional oxygen, which has been provided.”