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No new virus strain behind spate of Covid-19 deaths in AMU: Official
At least 38 AMU teachers, including 21 serving ones, have died of Covid or Covid-like symptoms in the last one month, triggering doubts if any new deadly strain of the virus has been in circulation.
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ALIGARH: Genome sequencing of Covid-19 samples has not found any new coronavirus strain behind the infection around the AMU campus, university authorities said Sunday as another member of their fraternity died.
Professor Abu Qamar, 75, the former dean of the Faculty of Medicine in the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital died here on Sunday of Covid-19 after battling it for nearly three weeks, JNMC Principal Shahid Ali Siddiqui said.
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Aligarh: The Aligarh Muslim University Vice-Chancellor, Prof Tariq Mansoor took initiative to thoroughly investigate the COVID-19 strains prevalent in and around Aligarh Civil Lines area, including AMU and surrounding localities to ascertain the possible factor for the high infectivity rate of COVID-19.
At the instance of the Vice-Chancellor, AMU, Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Microbiology sent 20 samples to CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi for genome sequencing.
According to Professor Haris Manzoor Khan, Chairman, Dept of Microbiology and the principal investigator, Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, AMU, among the 20 samples sent, 18 (90%) had B.1.617.2 lineage referred to as the Double Mutation Variant, first identified in Maharashtra, India on October 5, 2020.