Kolkata: The authority of the IIT Kharagpur on Tuesday imposed restrictions on the movement on the campus, except those in emergency services, in an effort to break the Covid-19 deployment chain.
Registrar of Tamal Nath told PTI restrictions on maintenance and emergency services, all other physical activities in the academic campus area at the Institute, including laboratory works, have been stopped from January 18 to 23.
“Because fresh covid cases are reported every day on campus, pushing the total number of affected people since the first week of January, we feel the need to break the immediate transmission chain not for one or two days but a few days but a few days.
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“We want to stop students from one hostel to another hostel, and curb the movement of people on campus during that period,” said Nath.
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Nath said so far 200 people, most of their staff and family members have been infected with transmission on campus.
“We will review the situation on January 23 and decide our next action.
If the situation improves, we will go for fewer restrictions,” he said.