A day after a Dharavi resident who had contracted novel coronavirus passed away, a 54- year old sweeper from the locality tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday.
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 spread of infection after the death of the 46-year-old on Wednesday, the authorities had sealed the housing society.
The Covid-19 patient stayed in a building constructed under the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) scheme.
A doctor and his staffer were also quarantined as the deceased had visited their clinic on March 23. He, however, had no foreign travel history, a health official of the BMC said.
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