V K Tripathi TNN
Patna: 04.03.2021
A final-year MBBS student of Patna's Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) died of Covid-19 and eight others tested positive over the past three days, prompting the institute to suspend all classes from Wednesday until RT-PCR tests clear the remaining students and hostel inmates. All nine students infected with the virus had been administered their first vaccine dose around three weeks ago. Immunity kicks in only after the second dose.
Principal secretary of health Pratyaya Amrit visited the college and directed hospital superintendent Dr Binod Kumar Singh to ensure that everyone on the campus was tested. He also ordered rapid antigen testing at Aryabhatta Knowledge University, where several students are to write their first MBBS paper on Thursday.
Samples taken from those who have tested positive have been sent to the Institute of Life Sciences in Bhubaneswar for confirmation of the Covid strain.
The deceased had left for Bihar’s Begusarai on February 24 and was admitted to a hospital there with Covid-19 symptoms. He died on Monday.
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