Coronavirus: 85 Indian students in Italian town send SOS

JAIPUR: Around 85 Indian students stranded for a week in the university town of Pavia in north Italy’s Lombardy region, which has reported 17 coronavirus deaths over the past few days, have sent an SOS seeking evacuation at the earliest. Some of these students were booked on flights to India that got cancelled in the wake of new coronavirus cases being reported in Italy.

Panic among the students has escalated since a non-teaching faculty member of the University of Pavia’s engineering department tested positive for coronavirus. Around 15 other staff members have been quarantined.