NIT Trichy : NIT-T asst professor tests positive in Trichy

NIT Trichy: A 26-year-old assistant professor who arrived in Trichy from Haryana to join the National Institute of Technology tested positive on Sunday.

Credit and source: times of india

He landed at the airport on June 4 and was taken to the quarantine centre at Government College of Engineering in Sethurapatti village near Srirangam after his swab was taken for testing.

After he tested positive, he was shifted to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital. NIT Trichy had selected 71 assistant professors in the second phase of faculty recruitment in March. While five of the faculty members joined that month, the lockdown delayed the arrival of others.

NIT Trichy director Mini Shaji Thomas said the assistant professor didn’t enter the campus where safety measures were in place since March. She said they were undertaking screening at both the gates apart from implementing standard operating procedure.
“We have already formed Covid-19 task force in April, masks have been distributed to all in the campus. The hospital staff and security are conducting awareness sessions and we are fully geared up,” she said.