103 test positive in Bengaluru apartment complex after a party

A total of 103 people have tested positive for Covid-19 from an apartment complex in Bommanahalli area of Bengaluru after a recent party, reported The Indian Express on Tuesday. The civic body said a party was organised on February 4 in an apartment building in the neighbourhood.

“We have tested 1,052 residents of the apartment; one person is admitted in the hospital and others are in quarantine,” Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad told the newspaper. “The BBMP had put in place various measures, including isolating and quarantining those who had tested positive and we have intensified contact tracing.”

Authorities said that the spread of the infection came to light when a few of them got tested before a scheduled trip to Dehradun. “On February 10 their test results came positive and immediately they alerted the Residents Welfare Association of the apartment where the BBMP was informed and tested the residents,” Bommanahalli zone…

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