19-Year-Old St Stephen's Undergrad Succumbs To Covid-19: First Such Fatality In Varsity

The first-year student took his last breath at a hospital in Kota, the Students' Federation of India (SFI) said.

Satyam Jha. (Source: @goatodelhi on Twitter)

New Delhi: A 19-year-old first-year student of Delhi University's St Stephen's College has succumbed to Covid-19. The first-year student took his last breath at a hospital in Kota, the Students' Federation of India (SFI) said.

In view of the pandemic, Satyam Jha of BA History (Honours) had left the national capital in the last week of April 2021. 

"He succumbed to the disease on Tuesday after being on a ventilator for eight days. He had also been elected as a member of the new organising committee of SFI St Stephen's formed in April," the SFI said.

Ananya Chakraborty, a second-year student of the college, and SFO member said they got to know about the tragic death of Jha's on Wednesday, May 26, 2021.

"I am the president of another society The Gandhi Ambedkar Study Circle. On May 14, we elected the council members of the society and everybody responded but he didn't. I was concerned and inquired from him. Two days later, he informed me that he was hospitalised due to Covid. On May 19, he told me that he had low oxygen levels," he said.

 "He was 18. A young man looking forward to life, expectantly. His dreams and those of his parents and all who loved him came to an end with his death. His soul though, we pray, hope and believe, rests in eternal peace," St Stephen principal John Varghese was quoted in a statement by the PTI. 

(With input from news agencies)