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3 more COVID-19 clusters identified in Bengaluru
With 33 COVID-19 positive cases reported till Saturday, in three clusters at Agragami College, Sambharam College and residents of Purva Venezia apartment of Yelahanka New Town, a northern suburb of Bengaluru, the Bengaluru civic body is contemplating to intensifying testing, tracking and treating. It was due to students coming from Kerala to study Agragami College and Sambharam College are responsible for the spread of pandemic, while in Purva Venezia apartment, it was spread from travellers from Maharashtra, who tested positive.
The Bengaluru Civic body commissioner, N. Manjunath Prasad told reporters those who arrived from neighbouring states of Kerala and Maharashtra resulted in new clusters.
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Corporation marshals challan a driver in Bengaluru on Friday for not wearing mask.
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Three new COVID-19 clusters, all in the Yelahanka zone, with a total of 19 positive cases were detected in Bengaluru on Friday. This takes the overall number of such groups to six over the past two weeks.
Two of the clusters were detected in educational institutions: five cases at Agragami College and nine students tested positive at Sambhram Academy of Management Studies. The third one, with five cases, is in a residential complex, Purva Venezia apartments.
BBMP Commissioner N. Manjunath Prasad said the detection of new cases was the result of elaborate testing taken up across educational institutions where students from neighbouring states, especially Kerala and Maharashtra, study. Testing has been intensified, especially in nursing colleges, where most of the students hail from Kerala. As per conservative estimates, there were nea