After Losing 26 Professors To Covid-19, AMU Writes To ICMR To Study If Covid Variant Responsible
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At least 44 people, including 26 professors have died at the Aligarh Muslim University after getting infected with the lethal novel coronavirus, within just 20 days, officials said, adding the new variant is suspected to have caused the deaths.
Tariq Mansoor, Vice-Chancellor of the AMU, has urged the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to investigate the samples taken from the varsity. His brother had also died of Covid-19.
He said that there is a possibility that a particular variant may be circulating in areas around the AMU campus and surrounding localities, which has led to these deaths.
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At least 44 people, including 26 professors have died at the Aligarh Muslim University after getting infected with the lethal novel coronavirus, within just 20 days, officials said, adding the new variant is suspected to have caused the deaths.
Tariq Mansoor, Vice Chancellor of the AMU, has urged the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to investigate the samples taken from the varsity. His brother had also died of Covid-19. Among the 26 professors who have lost their lives to Covid-19 include 16 working and 10 retired faculty members.
Officials said that samples have been collected from the university after the VC s request. The samples have been sent to the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in Delhi for examination.
36 deaths in university in a month Covid havoc at Aligarh Muslim University, call for scrutiny The varsity has lost more than three dozen present and former teachers and other employees, 16 of whom lived on campus or in the neighbourhood
Aligarh Muslim University has lost more than three dozen present and former teachers and other employees, including at least one doctor from the campus hospital, to Covid in the past one month.
All of them – including the former teachers and the 16 serving teachers who died lived on the campus and its neighbourhood, university sources said.
University honorary secretary Najmul Islam said one possible reason for the high toll could be the inflow of Covid patients at the on-campus J.N. Medical College and Hospital, the principal healthcare facility for Aligarh and surrounding districts.
May 1, 2021
Prof Sadaf Zaidi (Chairman, Department of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology) said that it is sad to see that Prof Mohammad Ali has passed away, it is a huge loss and my thoughts are with his family in this difficult time.
Prof Mohammad Ali published papers in peer-reviewed journals, wrote book chapters and edited books and was the Principal Investigator of various Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India sponsored projects.
He taught the Ph.D., graduate and post-graduate students. Agricultural Process, Food Engineering, Food Processing, development of food products, extraction and application of natural dye and pet foods were his thrust areas.
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