The Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) campus is in the grip of COVID-19 as 28 of its students have tested positive for coronavirus.
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‘Since the very beginning, the total number of Covid-19 cases reported from the state stands at 20,18,763. The recovery rate is 98.93 percent. The toll so far is 21,203.’
KMC Mayor, Firhad Hakim, said that 28 students have tested positive for COVID-19, and 58 others have been kept in isolation. "We have given a proposal for random tests within the campus at an interval of three days. If the institute authorities do not agree to cooperate on this account, we will have no other option but to declare the entire campus a containment zone until the situation comes under control," he told media persons on May 14th Saturday.
COVID-19 in IIM-C
It is learnt that all the 28 students, who have tested positive, had undergone two separate tests from two separate labs.Hakim says that since many students come from outside, the chances of faster spread of the virus remain. "KMC’s prime target now is to arrest the spread of the virus. If that can be kept under control, then another pandemic or semi-pandemic situation can be averted," he said.
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Coronavirus is a large positive-strand RNA virus that is surrounded by a protein envelope. The virus obtains its name from the S protein spikes on its surface, which resemble a crown. The overall pattern of increasing coronavirus cases is shown to spike up with the “second wave” of COVID-19.
With spiking effects of the second wave of coronavirus, the best way to keep it at bay is to follow COVID-appropriate safety practices like wearing a mask, regularly cleaning your hands, and coughing into a bent elbow or tissue along with physical distancing (6 feet about 2 arm's length), that may help evade the severity of COVID-19 infection.
Coronavirus is a large positive-strand RNA virus that is surrounded by a protein envelope. The virus obtains its name from the S protein spikes on its surface, which resemble a crown. The overall pattern of increasing coronavirus cases is shown to spike up with the “second wave” of COVID-19.
With spiking effects of the second wave of coronavirus, the best way to keep it at bay is to follow COVID-appropriate safety practices like wearing a mask, regularly cleaning your hands, and coughing into a bent elbow or tissue along with physical distancing (6 feet about 2 arm's length), that may help evade the severity of COVID-19 infection.
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