The Karnataka government has declared the Manipal Institute of Technology campus in Udupi a containment zone after 59 Covid-19 cases were recorded in the campus between March 11 and 16. Around 5,800 students were staying at the hostel, NDTV reported citing Dr Narayana Sabhahit, registrar of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE).
All the students who contracted the virus are doing well, he said. Seventeen of the cases were reported on March 15 and 25 cases on March 16. The movement of students in hostels and others residing in the campus will now be restricted for a period of two weeks.
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Faculty and essential duty staff of MIT campus will be allowed in the campus only with proper pass/identification.
Addressing the students, the Director of MIT in the notification said that the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) administration has decided to conduct all theory classes in online mode and defer the laboratory/practical /contact classes later. Pending end-semester examination of the first semester B.Tech will be rescheduled to a later date. MIT is a constituent unit of MAHE.
