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Yogi Adityanath visits AMU to review current Covid-19 situation

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Jyoti B
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Amu

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath visited Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Thursday to review the current Covid-19 (coronavirus) situation in the university, after 50 current and retired staff succumbed to the infection, reportedly due to the prevalence of a new variant of coronavirus.

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The CM had earlier also expressed concern over the news of the deaths of the professors and staff of AMU. He had also called up university Vice-Chancellor Professor Tariq Mansoor, assuring him of all the help to fight the Covid-19 menace.

At least 34 faculties, staff members have died due to Covid in the varsity since April-end. In a letter to the director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), VC Tariq Mansoor had said that 16 serving and 18 retired teachers, besides other employees of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) have succumbed to the infection in the past 18 days.

There is a possibility that "a particular variant may be circulating in areas around the AMU campus and surrounding localities, which has led to these deaths", he said, stressing the need for the study to control the spread of the virus, as reported by news agency PTI.

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