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VBSPU gears up to prevent Coronavirus

| @indiablooms | Mar 16, 2020, at 03:35 pm

Jaunpur/UNI: Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University here on Monday directed the colleges to keep soaps, tissue papers and alcohol-based sanitizers in the examination hall as part of the precautionary measure against the deadly coronavirus.

Registrar Sujit Kumar Jaiswal here said that all the colleges have been informed through a letter that pre-scheduled examinations will continue.

As a precautionary measure against the COVID-19, the tables and chairs kept in the examination hall be sanitised and apart from soaps and tissue papers, pedal-fitted dustbins should be used in the exam hall.

The Uttar Pradesh government has already issued an advisory to the state universities and colleges for precautions against the novel coronavirus.

As regards the advisory, the Registrar said that the pre-scheduled examinations will continue as it is in all colleges and all educational institutions situated in the University premises.

Before conducting the examinations, the doors, knobs, switches, hand-railings, chairs and tables in the classes must be sanitized. The bathrooms should be kept hygienic and the facility of soaps, alchohol-based sanitizers and water should be ensured.

Tissue papers should be kept in the classrooms and pedal-fitted dustbins with plastic bags to dispose off used tissue papers should also be maintained.

Jaiswal said that any kind of laxity on part of the educational institutions during the examinations will not be tolerated. 

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