ULHASNAGAR: A 49-year-old woman, who has been tested positive for the coronavirus infection, has sent

Municipal Corporation into a tizzy after the civic body learnt that she attended a satsang at a city-based ashram.

A special team has been pressed into service to track all those who reportedly came in contact with the patient, who is admitted at Kasturba hospital in Mumbai.

Officials said they have quarantine her family members. Five others, who had travelled with the woman to Dubai, are undergoing check-up at Kasturba Hospital in Mumbai. Officials said the woman may have came in to contact of over 1,500 people who attended the satsang on March 8.

The woman and her family had returned from the Dubai trip on March 4 following which she started feeling unwell. However, she attended the Sunday satsang at the ashram on March 8.

After her health condition worsened, she visited a private hospital on Wednesday from where she was referred to Kasturba Hospital.

After the health department shared details of the woman and her travel history with Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation, they formed teams to sanitize her residence. A separate team is tracing all the people who came in contact with the patient in the past 15 days.

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