An 18-year-old student of Delhi University’s St Stephen’s College has died of the coronavirus disease at a private hospital in Rajasthan, PTI reported on Thursday. Satyam Jha was a first-year student of history at the university.
Jha was a member of the college’s Gandhi Ambedkar Study Circle, debating society and the organising committee of the Students’ Federation of India unit.
“He succumbed to the disease on Tuesday after being on ventilator for eight days,” the SFI said.
Grief-stricken and angry, St Stephen’s College Principal John Varghese wrote a note – “From Pandemic to Panacea” – on the college website after Jha’s death.