Med colleges go online after 4 students test Covid positive

Med colleges go online after 4 students test Covid positive

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:16.03.2021 

The authorities of BJ Medical College have decided to close down on-campus classes for first year MBBS students after four students tested positive for Covid-19. Other medical colleges in the city have also decided to follow suit and switch to online classes for first-year MBBS students.

“The medical college authorities have decided to go back to online studies from Monday for first-year students as a precautionary measure,” said a senior college official while confirming that four first-year students had been infected with Covid-19.

Following the decision by BJ Medical College, other colleges in Ahmedabad including NHL Municipal Medical College, LG Medical College and AMC Dental College have also decided to close down on campus studies for first-year medical students, said sources close to the development.

Also, a medical college in Saurashtra has decided to close down on-campus classroom studies for its students, according to sources.

A first-year MBBS student who spoke on condition of anonymity said despite being frontline workers there are a large number of medical students who have not been vaccinated for Covid-19.

The decision comes on a day when Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation ordered the closure of shops after 10pm in eight municipal wards of the capital city given the rising cases of coronavirus in Gujarat.

As many as 890 new cases of Covid-19 were detected in Gujarat on Monday. Surat led the count with 262 cases, followed by Ahmedabad with a total of 209 cases.

The state’s only fatality was also reported from Surat. The total tally of coronavirus cases in Gujarat now stands at 2,79,097.

Colleges and schools in the state started reopening partially in a phase-wise manner from the second week of January after remaining shut for over nine months as a precautionary measure to check the spread of Covid-19.

BJ Medical, NHL, LG, and AMC Dental will stop on-campus studies for first year students