LOUIS RODRIGUES
BELAGAVI
A 50-year-old man from Goa, who was staying at Kudachi town in Raibag-Belagavi for little over a month, has tested positive for COVID-19 and is presently at a designated hospital in Belagavi.
With 17 of 34 positive cases reported by Karnataka in the last 24 hours located in Belagavi, community transmission has reached closer to Goa's doorstep.
Sources said the man from Goa, who tested COVID-19 positive, was part of a 10-member team who had travelled from Goa to Kudachi around first week of March to take part in a religious ritual.
However, the team couldn’t return to Goa due to the lockdown declared soon after the Janata Curfew declared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 22.
Though the team had not travelled to the Tablighi Jamaat meet at Nizamuddin, some of its members came in contact with local persons who had returned from Nizamuddin.
All other members of the Goa team are now lodged at a local school in Kudachi, sources said.
When contacted, Superintendent of Police Laxman Nimbargi told The Goan that police is investigating how many persons had come in contact with the infected cases and said details would be available in the next few days.
