During last four days, around 40 doctors, including Medical Superintendent Dr Himanshu, have tested positive.
Most of the doctors have tested positive despite taking both the doses of vaccine.
Around 20 doctors of the General Surgery Department have tested positive, as well as nine doctors of the Urology Department and three doctors of the Medicine Department have been tested positive.
Tests of several other faculty members are being conducted after they complained of influenza-like symptoms and their reports will be available later. Screening of entire staff in several departments has been done on Wednesday.
The heads of the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, the Medanta Hospital and the Era Medical college have already tested positive for Covid even after getting vaccinated.
Lucknow turns into Covid hotspot, vax hesitancy rises as top docs infected
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Chennai: Railway Employees taking Covid-19 vaccine shot, before being deployed to other cities for election duty in Chennai on Monday 8th March, 2021. (Photo: R Parthibhan/IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Lucknow, April 7 : Lucknow is turning into the biggest Covid hotspot in Uttar Pradesh.
After 40 doctors in the King George s Medical University (KGMU) tested positive for Covid on Tuesday night, 11 employees of the Axis Bank in the posh Hazratganj locality tested positive for the virus on Wednesday.
As the corona scare gets bigger, vaccine hesitancy is also on the rise since most of those who have tested positive in the medical facilities had received the vaccination.