SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Jan 9: IIT Indian School of Mines (ISM) management has begun sanitising and thermal scanning all visitors to the institution after a student was found Covid positive in the RT-PCR test.
Deputy director of IIT ISM Prof Dhiraj Kumar told that seven-day isolation has been made mandatory for whoever would arrive from foreign places.
The student was found to be positive on January 4 but IIT management made it public on January 8 evening. The student who had come from Chicago was reeling under fever. He had gone to Chicago for research work.
The District surveillance officer Dr Rajkumar said that the positive student had gotten off at Delhi airport on January 1 but was not screened there. He along with a student reached Dhanbad by Rajdhani Express the next day. First, he was kept in the isolation ward of IIT ISM but when his RT-PCR test came positive he was shifted to a special ward.
“After getting information of the positive case, the health department has begun collecting contract tracing of student in which bogey he had travelled, his berth number and how many passengers he had come in contact,” he said.
Dr Rajkumar said that the district health department is geared up to tackle the situation and has already arranged 50 beds in Sadar hospitals to keep such positive cases.
IIT ISM has to arrange an isolation ward in the campus-based health centre.
