COVID-19: Another cluster detected in Thanisandra

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Monday declared an apartment in Thanisandra as a COVID-19 cluster after five members of one family and a domestic help tested positive for the virus. All six have been admitted to a private hospital in Kalyan Nagar. The family of eight lives in a flat in Navagraha Apartment on Rachenahalli Main Road; five of them were infected. Officials suspected they were infected by a relative from Tirupathi who had visited them. “The relative had visited the family a week ago and was suffering from a cold. After staying with the family for two days, he returned to Tirupathi where he tested positive for COVID-19. He then advised his relatives to get tested,” said BBMP Commissioner N. Manjunath Prasad.