103 residents of Bengaluru apartment test Covid positive

Bengaluru, Feb 16 : As many as 103 residents, mostly aged above 60, of an apartment in a Bengaluru suburb have tested positive for Covid-19 after attending a social gathering in their complex, officials said on Tuesday.
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Commissioner N. Manjunatha Prasad told reporters that 103 people out of 1,052 residents of the SNN Lake View Apartments in Bommanahalli tested positive.
“We have tested 1,052 residents of the apartment; one person is admitted in the hospital and others are in quarantine. The civic body had put in place various measures, including isolating and quarantining those who had tested positive and we have intensified contact tracing,” he said.
Bengaluru civic body officials said that there was a party on February 4 in the apartment, in which most of the residents participated.
According to officials, the residents got to know that the infection had spread after some of them got themselves tested before a planned trip to Dehradun.
“On February 10, their test results came positive and immediately they alerted the Residents Welfare Association of the apartment… the BBMP was informed and tested the residents,” Prasad said.