Last month AMU issued a COVID-19 advisory to check the spread of the virus
Aligarh/New Delhi:
Forty-four employees of the Aligarh Muslim University - 19 professors and 25 non-teaching staff - have died after contracting the Covid virus, sparking concern over yet more cases, and deaths, emerging from the prestigious educational institution.
AMU Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor wrote to the ICMR (Indian Council for Medical Research, the central government s nodal body in this crisis) to say the deaths were from a lethal variant, and asked for genome sequencing. This is giving rise to suspicion that a particular viral variant may be circulating in the Civil Lines area of Aligarh, in which AMU and many adjoining localities are situated, the Vice Chancellor wrote.