A day after a 64-year-old man from the eastern suburbs tested positive for Coronavirus and was shifted to Kasturba Hospital from Hinduja, a civic team screened 460 houses in the vicinity and advised six people who had come in close contact with the patient and his family to get admitted and undergo tests. The patient's family members with whom he was living since his return from Dubai last week, have also been admitted to Kasturba Hospital.

After the man developed symptoms, he visited a local doctor and later a clinic in Chembur. Then on March 8 he was admitted to Hinduja Hospital and shifted to Kasturba on March 13 after he tested positive for the virus. Deputy executive health officer of BMC, Dr Daksha Shah, said, "Currently the patient is stable. Out of the total 14 people who came in close contact with the patient, seven high-risk ones have been admitted to Kasturba for tests. The remaining are low-risk ones, so they have been kept in home quarantine for 14 days."