Twenty-five more students tested positive for Covid-19 at IIT-Madras, State Health Secretary Dr J Radhakrishnan said on Saturday. With this, the total number of cases on the campus stands at 55.
Radhakrishnan said 1,420 samples collected from students and faculty have been tested so far, of which 55 came back positive. On Friday, 18 students tested positive for the infection.
The health secretary said all the Covid-19 patients on campus have mild symptoms, while only a few have fever. Their oxygen saturation level is 98-99.
Mandagini hostel is reportedly the site of the Covid-19 cluster at IIT-Madras. First year students from 13 states arrived at the hostel recently, and it is suspected that one of the new students might have been the carrier. Covid tests are being conducted in all 19 hostels on campus.
State Health Secretary Radhakrishnan had earlier said that the gradual increase of Covid cases was worrying. “Based on the genome analysis of the cases, 90 per centre Omicron cases of BA.2 variant,” he had said.
