Mysore/Mysuru: As part of twinning programme between India and China, 120 Chinese students are presently pursuing their studies at the University of Mysore. Out of the 120, 18 of them have travelled back to their homes in China for the Lunar new year holiday, at a time when there is a major outbreak of the coronavirus, with the city of Wuhan being the epicentre of this outbreak, with the reported death toll crossing 218 and thousands affected.
Mysore University Vice-Chancellor, Prof. G. Hemantha Kumar, who is presently in Trivandrum on an official trip, has urged the 18 Chinese students already in China, to stay back there to avoid any outbreak of the virus here in Mysuru city. The students have been intimated through SMS, according to sources.
