Health Minister Ma. Subramanian on Sunday visited the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, where five fresh infections took the total to 60.
He told journalists that just when the number of infections was falling in Chennai district, a new cluster was detected at the institute. What started as one case became a cluster in six days.
“The Health Secretary has been visiting the institute that has students from around 15 States. He has visited the institute thrice with health officials of the Greater Chennai Corporation and inspected the facilities and isolated the students, who are being tested for oxygen saturation levels thrice a day. Of the 7,300 students, 2,015 were tested, and 60 cases emerged. This amounts to a positivity rate of 2.98%,” he said.
