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

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad confirmed that 103 people out of 1,052 residents of the apartment tested positive. “We have tested 1,052 residents of the apartment; one person is admitted in the hospital and others are in quarantine. The BBMP had put in place various measures, including isolating and quarantining those who had tested positive and we have intensified contact tracing,” Prasad said.

“The BBMP had put in place various measures, including isolating and quarantining those who had tested positive and we have intensified contact tracing.”

The apartment complex has been declared a containment zone, according to the health ministry’s protocol. The BBMP has also sent samples to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences(NIMHANS) to find the variant of the virus. “The Samples have been collected and sent for genome sequencing to the NIMHANS laboratory to ascertain the virus variant,” he said, while adding that 96 people who have tested positive are above the age of 60.

The BBMP chief said that all travellers from Kerala to Bengaluru should get a negative coronavirus test report within 72 hours. Prasad urged residents welfare associations to keep an eye on everyone who has Covid-19 symptoms, and on travellers from Kerala or other states where coronavirus cases are high.

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