As 44 Die Of Covid At Aligarh University, Calls For Genome Sequencing | Read

Forty-four employees of the Aligarh Muslim University - 19 professors and 25 non-teaching staff - have died after contracting the Covid virus, sparking concern over yet more cases, and deaths, emerging from the prestigious educational institution. AMU Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor wrote to the ICMR (Indian Council for Medical Research, the central government's nodal body in this crisis) to say the deaths were from a "lethal" variant, and asked for genome sequencing.