54-yr-old Sanitation Worker Tests Positive, 2nd Case In Dharavi

A DAY after a Dharavi resident who had contracted novel Coronavirus died, a 54-year-old sweeper from the locality tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday.

- Mustafa Shaikh

The sanitation worker stays in Worli area of Mumbai but would go to work near the Mahim Fatak road in Dharavi.

As per health department officials, the patient is attached to the Solid Waste Department of Brihhanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). He developed symptoms around three days back following which he was quarantined at the Seven Hills Hospital in Mumbai where he tested positive on Thursday.

Densely populated Dharavi is famous as one of the largest slums in Asia.

Amid fears of the spread of infection after the death of the 46-year-old on Wednesday, the authorities had sealed the housing society.