AMU deaths not caused by new Covid-19 virus: Official

Aligarh Muslim University has lost a lot of lives due to the double mutant Covid-19 virus and not a new virus, said officials.

Aligarh Muslim University Covid-19 samples genome sequencing has not detected any new virus. Genome sequencing of Covid-19 samples has not found any new coronavirus strain behind the infection around the AMU campus, university authorities said Sunday as another member of their fraternity died. Professor Abu Qamar, 75, the former dean of the Faculty of Medicine in the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital died on Sunday of Covid-19 after battling it for nearly three weeks, JNMC Principal Shahid Ali Siddiqui said. Prof Qamar died two days after AMU’s former proctor, Prof Nasim Beg, 76, died in a New Delhi hospital where he was shifted to and admitted after his condition worsened here, his family members said.