Mumbai: After 21 COVID-19 cases, Malabar Hill building sealed

A plush residential complex in Napean Sea Road in Mumbai's Malabar Hill area has been sealed after 21 COVID-19 cases were reported from re in seven days, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation official said on Monday.

He said 19 of 21 patients were domestic help, drivers and security staff."House-helps work in different flats in building and may have spread infection. entire building had to be sealed to break chain of spread," Assistant MunicipalCommissioner (D Ward) Prashant Gaikwad said.

"We have shifted house-helps and security staff to quarantine centres and told residential complex society to sanitise common toilets at least four to six times a day," he added. Officials said building is being sanitised and residents screened.