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Senior citizen couple tests positive for Coronavirus in Kasturba

They were part of a group of 40 people who had travelled to Dubai; family members quarantined

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People cover their faces in the premises of Kasturba Hospital where a couple who tested positive for Coronavirus has been admitted. Pic/Ashish Raje

People cover their faces in the premises of Kasturba Hospital where a couple who tested positive for Coronavirus has been admitted. Pic/Ashish Raje

Two of the six people from Mumbai who had travelled to Dubai last month and were admitted to the Kasturba Hospital in Chinchpokli, have tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday. There are 10 positive cases of COVID-19 in Maharashtra, which includes this couple from Mumbai who had travelled with a group of 40 other people, and eight others from Pune. A 45-year-old man tested positive for Coronavirus in Nagpur on Wednesday, officials said. The man had returned from the US on March 6, they said.

The group of 40 people had landed in Mumbai on March 1. The two who tested positive in Mumbai are senior citizens (the husband is 70-years-old and the wife is 68-years-old) and senior civic officials said that they are from the western suburbs.

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