Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has managed to track down three people in Mumbai who met Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor in the city last week, before she tested positive for coronavirus.
These three people were sent to Kasturba hospital on Monday, where they tested negative, civic officials told The Free Press Journal.
Civic officials said they have formed two special teams to track down around 10-12 people to check them for possible coronavirus symptoms. This was after they received information from officials in Lucknow that these people had meet Kapoor.
“We are in constant touch with officials from Lucknow to get an update. As per the information we have, she (Kapoor) met 10-12 people during her stay in Mumbai after she returned from London.
We have formed special teams to keep track of them. We managed to trace three people whom she met. Luckily all three persons tested negative,” additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani told The Free Press Journal.
Kakani, however, refused to divulge any further information about the three people. “We are still on the lookout for others who met her. Officials from Lucknow are helping us in this task.
We will not leave any stone unturned to reach out to the remaining people if there are any who met Kapoor,” the official said. Kapoor is based in Lucknow and landed in Mumbai from London on March 10. The following day, she travelled to Lucknow from Mumbai.
One of the three people tracked down by the BMC is Kapoor's entrepreneur friend Ojas Desai, who attended a party with Kapoor. He tested negative for novel coronavirus on March 22. Desai took to Twitter to declare this and posted his test results from Kasturba Hospital on Monday.
He announced that he was under home quarantine in Juhu till April 4, as directed by the authorities, and posted: "All of us need to stay calm, united and sensible."
Meanwhile, Kapoor tested positive in a second test for Covid-19 conducted on her on Monday. The singer's sample was tested for the second time at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGIMS), Lucknow, after her family members raised questions about the initial test reports. The singer is reported to be stable.
