The BBMP said the relatives and neighbors of those who tested positive did not want to move into an institutional quarantine facility.
Following two patients who tested positive for the new British variant of the novel coronavirus, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) sealed an entire apartment complex in the Bommanahalli area. This, after both the relatives and neighbors of those who tested positive, did not want to move to an institutional quarantine facility. The new UK variant is believed to be more infectious than other variants of the new coronavirus.
IPS senior officer Manivannan P, in charge of managing COVID-19 in the area, told TNM that the barricades could be removed in the next two days, depending on the results of the swab. Patients who test positive for the virus will be transferred to a hospital for further supervision. Dr GK Suresh, Deputy Health Officer for the Bommanahalli area, said that up to 37 people residing in 12 apartments could potentially have been affected by this and therefore all of them have undergone RT-PCR testing. .
With the daily number of COVID-19 cases declining and restrictions gradually easing in Bengaluru, the construction of barricades in apartment complexes or entire streets had become a thing of the past.
Earlier it was reported that a woman and her child (recent returnees from the UK) were among the three who had been infected by the new strain of the virus in Karnataka. It was also reported that all of his primary and secondary contacts were being tracked and tested.
The woman and her son are currently under medical supervision at the Victoria Hospital in Bangalore.
So far, 29 people in the state who had recently returned from the UK have tested positive for the virus. Their samples have been collected and sent for genome sequencing to determine if they have been infected with the British variant of the virus. In India, twenty people have been confirmed to have been affected by the British variant of the coronavirus.
.
