: The unending struggles of Indian medical students barred from returning to China #IndiaNEWS In January 2020, 20-year-old medical student Rizwana P Rasheed returned to Thrissur in Kerala on board an

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The unending struggles of Indian medical students barred from returning to China #IndiaNEWS
In January 2020, 20-year-old medical student Rizwana P Rasheed returned to Thrissur in Kerala on board an evacuation flight from Wuhan in China, where the spread of Covid-19 had sparked alarm. Rasheed, who was nearing the end of her second year studying medicine in Wuhan University, believed her trip to India would be short. On January 30, she tested positive for Covid-19, becoming the first person in India to be diagnosed with the virus. More than two years later and after suffering a second bout of Covid-19, Rasheed is still in India and in the fifth and final year of the MBBS degree. She has been following every update from her university and the Chinese government in the hope that foreign students will be allowed to return to the country.China follows a strict “zero-Covid� policy to control the spread of the virus and has banned foreign students from entering the country since the outbreak of the pandemic. Like Rasheed, more than 20,000 Indian students are studying through online classes conducted by Chinese universities. Since February, Indian students have been campaigning and demanding that they be allowed to return to Chinese universities. They have repeatedly urged the Indian government to take up the matter with China. China remains the...Read more

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