After a number of die of COVID-19 in AMU, Yogi Adityanath visits AMU to take inventory, turns into the primary CM ever to go to varsity

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Thursday after stories of fifty present and retired employees of the college succumbing to COVID-19 surfaced. Yogi Adityanath is the primary CM to go to the Aligarh Muslim University since its inception. The CM took inventory of the scenario after stories advised the prevalence of a brand new variant of coronavirus in and across the campus. The go to to AMU was part of CM Yogi Adityanath visiting Aligarh, Mathura and Agra to take inventory of the COVID-19 scenario.
Around 15 college members, 25 retired educating college, 15 employees members, and a pair of college academics from AMU fell sufferer to the Chinese virus previously 20-25 days. This led the Vice-chancellor Tariq Mansoor to write down a letter to Balram Bhargava, director of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), urging him to undertake a probe suspecting a brand new variant of Covid-19 within the civil strains space of Aligarh the place the AMU campus is positioned.
“This is to bring into your notice that 16 AMU faculty members, a number of retired teachers and employees in other categories, who were living in the university campus and adjoining localities have succumbed to Covid-19. This is giving rise to a suspicion that a particular viral variant may be circulating in the Civil Lines area of Aligarh in which AMU and many adjoining localities are situated,” the VC mentioned in his letter.
Starting his tour with the AMU, Yogi Adityanath met the Vice-Chancellor and others from the administration to evaluate the present worrisome scenario. He assured all attainable assist and required medical services for the employees of AMU.
After the employees of the AMU panicked after the stories of a number of deaths on the campus, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Kunwar Danish Ali wrote to Prime Minister Modi on Wednesday urging him to ship a Central group to examine and help within the battle in opposition to the suspected new “virus variant” that’s wreaking havoc in AMU.
“I, therefore, humbly request you to immediately send the central team to the AMU campus and provide medical assistance or allocate sufficient funds to Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College to fight the new Covid variant and save precious lives in the campus and surrounding areas,” Ali wrote.
The deaths additionally gave approach to criticism and allegations on AMU administration for its dealing with of the Covid-19 pandemic particularly after the pinnacle of drugs of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC), which is affiliated with AMU succumbed to Covid.
JNMC has additionally reported a scarcity of medical employees to deal with the disaster. The JNMC principal Prof Shahid Ali Siddiqi has nonetheless refuted the allegations of negligence.
The state of Uttar Pradesh reported 18,125 new circumstances of Covid-19 and 329 deaths on Wednesday.