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IIT Kharagpur Reports 60 Covid Cases; Campus Opening Up Postponed

Dais Newsfeed | 04/01/2022 04:37 PM | Click to read full article

Sixty persons, including 40 students and researchers residing on IIT Kharagpur’s campus have tested positive for Covid-19, an official said Tuesday.

Most of those infected are mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic and either at home isolation or at isolation wards created in the prestigious engineering institution’s hostels, Tamal Nath, IIT Kharagpur’s Registrar told PTI. Other than the student-researchers, 20 other infected are from non-teaching staff and faculty.

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