ALIGARH, 14 May 2021, (TON): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited Aligarh Muslim University to take stock of the coronavirus situation at the university, where it was claimed that over 44 serving and retired faculty members have died due to COVID or COVID-like symptoms.
The Chief Minister found that there was nothing to get alarmed and the supply of oxygen to the university’s medical college was normal and continuous as hospital has its three liquid oxygen plants. In the same regard, the hospital did not report any deaths due to the shortage of oxygen.
Adityanath expressed grief over the deaths at Aligarh Muslim University’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, he said situation is improving the situation. He hoped that the vaccination drive on the campus would be further improving the situation.
Alarmed by the deaths, AMU Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor had written to the Indian Council of Medical Research on 9 May, urging it to study if a particular coronavirus variant is circulating around the university campus.
Congress spokesperson and former Aligarh MLA Vivek Bansal alleged that Adityanath’s visit to AMU was “an attempt to cover up the total breakdown of health services in UP”.