90 students of IIT Roorkee test COVID-19 positive, 5 hostels sealed

90 students at Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Roorkee have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last few days, the university's media cell in-charge Sonika Srivastava said.

Following this, the Haridwar District Health Department has sealed five hostels--- Coral, Kasturba, Sarojini, Govind Bhawan and Vigyan Kunj and declared them as containment zones.

"The institute has about three thousand students, of which around 1,200 students live in these five hostels. At present, all students are being treated in hostels. The students who were preparing to come to the IITs, have been stopped till the next orders. All the students present on the premises have been instructed to take precautions," said Srivastava.


Uttarakhand has reported 787 new positive cases on Thursday, taking the state's cumulative count to 1,05,498.