ROORKEE: A 29-year-old student died at a Covid-19 quarantine centre set up at the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee (IIT-R) on Wednesday. The cause of his death is yet to be confirmed. Prem Singh, a resident of Chandigarh, was an MTech student at the department of earthquake engineering. According to the reports, he was quarantined on April 11 as he had come in contact with other Covid-positive students of the institute.
On Wednesday, the officials found him unconscious and was first rushed to the institute’s hospital, and later, to a local civil hospital where he was declared dead. According to Sonika Srivastava, IIT-Roorkee media cell incharge, “The student was not Covid-positive as his RT-PCR report was negative.”