A day after a 68-year-old woman from the eastern suburbs tested positive for COVID-19, nine other people who came in close contact with her were admitted to Kasturba Hospital on Thursday. The woman was working as a house help for a 49-year-old man who also recently tested positive. Civic officials are now tracking seven cab drivers who had ferried him around the city.

The woman was diagnosed at Kasturba Hospital on March 17 after which a team of civic officials was given the task of tracing all those she came in contact with. A civic official said that since she was a resident of a slum, the number of people who came in contact with her was higher.