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Tamil Nadu: 58 Students & Staff Members Test Positive For Covid-19 At IIT-Madras

In the first week of January, nearly 67 students tested positive in Madras Insitute of Technology campus in Chromepet.

Chennai: The IIT Madras management has identified a Covid-19 cluster after 58 students and staff members tested positive for coronavirus between January 5 & 9. The positive patients were sent to a government quarantine facility while some of them opted for home quarantine. 

According to a report on Times of India, IIT-M director Bhaskar Ramamurthi said, the institution is following everything the Chennai Corporation and the doctors have suggested. 

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All the students who returned to the campus after January 1 have been told to stay in quarantine for a week after which the institute said that they will be permitted into classrooms and labs if they produce a negative Covid-19 certificate.

Meanwhile, an official said, the students have only mild or no symptoms so we have arranged for isolation facilities for the students and the cases were reported only last week. 

In the first week of January, nearly 67 students tested positive in the Madras Insitute of Technology campus in Chromepet.

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Meanwhile, nearly 21 police personnel in the Greater Chennai Police limit tested positive for coronavirus on Monday. In the past week, overall 70 police personnel contracted the infection in Chennai and over 300 personnel across the state are receiving treatment for COVID, said a Times of India report. 

All the police personnel tested positive despite taking Covid-19 vaccine. Till now, 95 per cent of the cops have taken the first dose while 87 per cent of them have taken the second vaccine dose.

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