JNU students asked to go home after pharmacist tests positive for Covid-19

NEW DELHI : After a pharmacist in the varsity tested positive for Covid-19, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration asked students still remaining inside the campus to return to their hometowns.

"In the current situation, the planning of re-opening of the scholastic foundations is dubious and may get postponed till August 15. Along these lines, given the way that the quantity of COVID-19 positive cases in Delhi is expanding quickly, all understudies who are abandoned in the lodgings are, thus, emphatically encouraged to come back to their home at the most punctual," a round by Dean of Students Professor Sudheer Pratap Singh said. 

In spite of the fact that the college is avoiding potential risk according to the rules gave by the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Delhi government every once in a



while, there is no more secure spot other than one's own home, the varsity said. The lodging occupants who have just left the college grounds ought not return until the college is re-opened, it said.

Most of the students at the campus have returned to their native places and educational activities at the university are at a low key. The JNU had, on May 25, strongly advised the students stranded in its hostels to return to their native places as special trains and some inter-state bus services have become operational following relaxations in the coronavirus-induced lockdown norms.

The JNU administration has also asked all those who came in contact with the pharmacist to be vigilant and get themselves tested immediately if any symptoms appear. The pharmacist is in home isolation at his residence in the JNU campus.