Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay It is emerging as a COVID-19 hotspot, as the total number of infections in the campus rises to 16. The Covid-19 cluster is believed to have started with two cases which were reported from hostel number 18 in October this year. , Of the 16 cases, nine are students and seven are members of the teaching and non-teaching staff.
When the new cases were detected on October 16, a Covid-19 testing drive was launched by the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) two days later, following which three more students tested positive. “It is very difficult to trace the possible source of infection, but the first student went get-together outside the campus,” an official told leading daily.
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The total number of cases after the test drive stood at seven, of which five were asymptomatic. The report said that as infections accumulated, more test drives were arranged, which detected a total of 16 cases, the highest in nearly two months. To contain the spread of cases and contain the escalation, around 225 high-risk contacts have been tested, and their reports are yet to come.
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“We had a higher number of cases in the second wave, and on some days, the number was as high as 10 per day. The cases started declining from mid-October. It is only in the last week that we have seen a slight increase in numbers, but most of them are from a single cluster,” said S Sudarshan, deputy director, educational and infrastructure affairs.
The BMC has prepared necessary and strict guidelines for the campus and has sealed the entire floor of hostel number 18, where most of the senior students reside. IIT Bombay decided to open its hostels for second and third year students from December to start the semester in January 2022.
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