Bhubaneswar, March 2 -- Bhubaneswar: Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Pradipta Mohapatra has stirred up an online storm by claiming that 25 students of Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) at Burla were shown as COVID-19 positive earlier due to faulty coronavirus testing kits.

Students and Twitterati have been reacting sharply to Odisha Government's account that no students of the varsity are positive because faulty kits were used for the COVID-19 test.

Several users have shared their misgivings about the statement and expressed their concern over the entire situation. "In such a technologically advanced age, faulty kits are such a dangerous act. Imagine the whole university's fear. The final days rendered in the hostel...