COVID-19 cases

Prabhadevi chawl

Local Shiv Sena corporator Samadhan Sarvankar

cluster screening exercise

executives and employees

7 are family members and the rest neighbours; the 65-year-old woman died on March 27.Twelve newhave been reported from the, whose resident died last week after contracting the virus. The BMC said on Monday that seven of the woman’s family members and five neighbours in the two-storey building have tested positive. All of them have been admitted to Kasturba Hospital.said the—which has common toilets on each floor-—has been disinfected, and the entire lane cordoned off. “A team of doctors has surveyed around 40 homes in that building as well neighbouring ones.” Around 180 residents were screened for symptoms.“We have told all residents of the chawl to report to the BMC if they feel unwell. Our staff has visited each house. We will check in on them daily for the next 14 days to see if they develop symptoms,” said Sharad Ughade, assistant municipal commissioner, G-South ward.The 65-year-old woman tested positive on March 24, and died three days later. She ran a mess in Prabhadevi that catered lunch to an upscale business centre next door. She had neither travelled abroad nor did she have any known contact with a COVID-19 patient. The BMC said that it has undertaken a massive, but since dozens offrom several other business centres ate at her mess, tracking down all of those she might have interacted with recently is proving to be a big challenge. “Those who came in contact with her must come forward. We have got in touch with the business centre where she catered lunch to find out if there were other employees who ate at the mess,” said Ughade.