Letter: The entire Pavitra Row House housing line was declared clusters by the Ministry of Health Municipal Corporation (SMC) after five family members were tested positively Covid 19.
Infected people have small symptoms at home.
isolation.
A 66-year-old family member has returned from Mahabaleshwar on November 11 after a two-day trip, said the source.
He developed symptoms on Friday after that he went to the SMC health center and was tested positively.
Other family members, including a 35-year-old man, a 31-year-old wife and two three-year-old children were then tested positive on Saturdays.
“Other family members also arrested infection after living in the same house for 24 hours with senior citizens.
The family is in house isolation now because they have mild symptoms,” said a health official.
After senior citizens were tested positively in the RT-PCR test, SMC tested other family members too.
Meanwhile, the number of positive people in the city has increased to eight on Saturday.
Until now, the number of cases remained under five.
Health officials informed that cases increased when tourists returned from vacation.
The Civic’s body has increased testing to 7,000 daily in the city and the number of tests at the entry point has also multiplied to 3,000 of the previous 1,500.