COVID-19 Scare: IIT Kanpur asks students to vacate hostel

According to the instructions issued to the students, all undergraduate, MBA, and first-year M.Tech students are required to vacate the hostels by March 19.

IIT Kanpur has taken a precautionary step against the Coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak in the country. The premier engineering institute has asked its students to vacate the hostels ad special being provided to the students. According to the instructions issued to the students, all undergraduate, MBA, and first-year M.Tech students are required to vacate the hostels by March 19.

Only PhD, second-year M.Tech/MDes/MS and fifth-year dual degree students, who are already on the IIT-K campus, have been permitted to stay in the hostels after March 19. For PG students, who are away from the campus, special leave will be provided to them.

The engineering institute has tweeted recently with advisories laid down against the coronavirus outbreak. In the advisory, IIT Kanpur has mentioned the following points:

1. All undergraduate, MBA, and first-year MTech/MDes/MS students are required to vacate the hostels by 19th March. Only PhD, second-year MTech/MDes/MS and fifth-year Dual Degree students already on campus are permitted to stay in the hostels after 19th March. For PG students away from campus, special leave will be provided.
2. In case any of the PhD, second-year MTech/MDes/MS and fifth-year Dual Degree student wishes to leave the campus, special leave will be provided for the same. In addition to the above, the following protocols are also being adopted:
3. All bookings for social functions in CC-I and Aashiana that involve visitors from outside are being cancelled until further notice.
4. Another quarantine facility is being set up on the second floor of CC-II. Hence, no functions can be held in CC-II until further notice.
5. Retired employees coming to Health Centre for regular medicines should report to Help Desk set up in front of the Centre between 10-12am. Their booklets will be deposited and medicines delivered to them through the Desk.
6. Specialist OPD being run at Health Centre is being suspended from tomorrow until further notice.
7. Elderly people and children should go to the Centre only if it is essential as they are most susceptible to infections.

Earlier, IIT Kanpur canceled its annual technical festival 'Techkriti' and suspended classes for the students to curb the outbreak of the epidemic Coronavirus.

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