Five trainees of Indian Forest Services (IFS) at prestigious India Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA) here have shown symptoms similar to that of Coronavirus. A team of health department rushed to the academy on Saturday and collected samples of these trainees. It is learnt that these trainees had recently travelled to Finland in Europe. Sources of at the IGNFA revealed that the trainees have been kept in isolation within the campus.
The state nodal officer of Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), Dr Pankaj said that samples of the five forest service officers undergoing training at the IGNFA have been collected and sent for test for COVID-19. He said that samples of 22 suspected patients have so far been collected and sent for test of Coronavirus. Dr Pankaj informed that results of 13 samples have come and all of which are negative. Findings of nine samples are awaited.
Meanwhile at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee swab sample of a PhD student was been taken on suspicion of Coronavirus. This student of Physics department of the institute had returned from Japan on March 3. An official of the IIT Roorkee said that as a precautionary measure the student is kept under observation in Haridwar.