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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.
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.