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85 Indian Students Issue SOS Call To Government Of India To Be Evacuated From Coronavirus Hit Italy
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As many as 85 Indian students studying in Italy have issued an SOS call to be rescued by the Government of India in the light of the Novel Coronavirus outbreak in the European nation, reports Times of India.
The 85 students belong to the university town of Pavia in the northern part of Italy’s Lombardy region which has reported as many as 17 deaths over the past few days as an outcome of the Coronavirus outbreak.
It should be noted that the panic escalated among the students after a non-teaching faculty member of the engineering department of the University of Pavia had tested positive for Coronavirus. Since then, as many as 15 more staff members of the university have been quarantined.
As per reports, of the 85 Indian students stuck in Pavia, 25 are from Telangana, 20 from Karnataka, 15 from Tamil Nadu, four from Kerala, two from Delhi and one each from Rajasthan, Gurgaon and Dehradun.
Some of the students who have reached out to the Government had their tickets booked on flights to India which were cancelled by the carriers in the wake of the outbreak in Italy.
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