Telangana's Zaheerabad town reports 19 members of family test positive for Covid-19

As many as 19 members of a family in Telangana's Zaheerabad town have tested positive for Covid-19, officials said on Saturday. According to the health department officials, all of them are relatives of a 55-year-old woman, who had died at a private hospital in Hyderabad on June 9.

Her body was brought to Zaheerabad and was buried the same day. The next day, the hospital authorities



informed her family members that the samples collected before her death have tested positive for Covid-19.

The health department and municipal officials went on alert and shifted the deceased's family members and relatives to an isolation centre. They collected samples of 25 people and of them, 19 returned positive. They include women and children. The results were known late on Friday.