Another COVID-19 cluster emerges in Bengaluru, 10 people in apartment infected with virus
“The 10 cases at the SJR Watermark Apartments, comprising nine blocks housing 1,500 people, were found between February 15 and 22,” BBMP Commissioner Manjunath Prasad said.
FollowBengaluru: As many as 10 positive cases of coronavirus have been reported from a multi-block apartment in Bengaluru, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (city corporation) Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad said on Monday.
“The 10 cases at the SJR Watermark Apartments, comprising nine blocks housing 1,500 people, were found between February 15 and 22,” Prasad said in a statement.
“Based on the finding, six contiguous blocks of the apartment at Bellandur of Mahadevapura Zone have been declared as a containment zone by the BBMP,” he added.
He added that the sanitisation has been carried out in the apartment premises and a health team with four doctors has been deployed.
The infections are spread over six blocks and the apartment complex has been declared a containment zone. The three other blocks which have not reported a single case are located about 200 metres away from the other six.
Earlier, an apartment in Bengaluru’s Bommanahalli became a Covid hotspot after 103 people were found infected after a party on the premises.
On February 14, 40 students at a nursing college in Kaval Byrasandra tested positive for the virus. Manjunath Prasad had said that the nursing college students have contracted the Covid-19 while visiting their hometowns in Kerala.
