Roorkee, 9 April: 90 students at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee have tested positive for COVID-19.
Sonika Srivastava, IIT Roorkee media cell in-charge, confirmed that, A total of 90 students have tested positive for COVID-19, and Haridwar District Health Department has sealed five hostels— Coral, Kasturba, Sarojini, Govind Bhawan and Vigyan Kunj and declared them as containment zones.
Sonika Srivastava said, “The institute has about 3,000 students, of which around 1,200 students live in these five hostels. At present, all students are being treated in hostels. The students who were preparing to come to the IITs, have been stopped till the next orders.
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) is a public technical and research university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. It is formerly known as University of Roorkee (1949-2001) and Thomason College of Civil Engineering (1847-1949). Established in 1847 in British India by the then lieutenant governor, Sir James Thomason, it is the oldest technical institution in Asia. It was given university status in 1949 and was converted into an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2001, thus becoming the seventh IIT to be declared. IIT Roorkee has 22 academic departments covering Engineering, Applied Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences and Management programs with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.
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