Karnataka's Manipal Institute Of Tech Hostel Now A Containment Zone

The institute has rescheduled pending end-semester examination of the first semester B.Tech to a later date, ANI reported. MIT is a constituent unit of MAHE.

A hostel area in the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) in Udupi district of Karnataka has been declared a containment zone after a number of students and others in the area tested positive for coronavirus, a top official at the institute has confirmed to NDTV. Registrar of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Dr Narayana Sabhahit, told NDTV that around 5,800 students were staying there. He said 59 students had tested positive over the last couple of days and they had been isolated in a separate block. All the students who contracted the virus are doing well, he said. The Registrar made it clear that the entire Manipal campus was not a containment zone.   "There has been a rise in numbers in Udupi district and the neighbouring district of Mangaluru - both of which are close to Kerala. With cases reported in the MIT campus, the district administration said the MIT campus should be a containment zone. This applies only to the hostel area where students reside. The academic area is unaffected and faculty can reach there with passes and with Covid protocol. Movement has been restricted across the campus as a precaution. Online classes are continuing," Dr Sabhahit told NDTV.