Mumbai: Pathlab in Dadar sealed after 12 staffers test Covid-19 positive

MUMBAI: The BMC on Friday sealed a pathology lab in Dadar (West) after 12 staffers treated positive for Covid-19. The BMC’s G-North ward sealed Dr Lal Pathlab after one of the staffers, Vijay Rane, tested positive on December 22.
Contact tracing revealed that 12 of his contacts, all colleagues at the pathlab, were also Covid-19 positive. The lab is located on Dadar’s Shankar Ghanekar Marg.
“After receiving information about a covid positive patient working as pantry boy in the pathlab, contact tracing for the positive patient was done. As many as 39 high-risk contacts, all working staff of the lab, were tested. Twelve of them were found positive. The lab was sealed by G/North ward health post staff and contacts were traced by respective wards as per their address,” said an official. tnn