<p class="title">A 31-year-old man tested positive for novel coronavirus in Kolar on Friday taking the tally of Covid-19 patients in the district to 7.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Five people had tested positive for Covid-19 on May 12 in Mulbagal taluk. Two day later, a truck driver from Bainepalli in KGF taluk tested positive.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The new patient is a resident of Gandhinagar and hails from Malavalli taluk in Mandya district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After lockdown was relaxed, he went to his native place and returned to Kolar on May 11.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As he had returned from the red zone, he voluntarily went to the hospital for tests. Reports of his throat swabs and blood samples indicated the presence of the virus.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Despite health department officials asking him to be under quarantine, he ventured out and visited his office and various localities in the town.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He kept the health department officials in dark and went to Banashankari area in Bengaluru. The district administration has alerted the health officials in Bengaluru about his stay.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The City Municipal Council declared the 100 metre radius area from his house as containment zone and sealed it down.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The district administration is trying to trace the people who came in contact with him,” deputy commissioner C Satyabhama said.</p>
<p class="title">A 31-year-old man tested positive for novel coronavirus in Kolar on Friday taking the tally of Covid-19 patients in the district to 7.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Five people had tested positive for Covid-19 on May 12 in Mulbagal taluk. Two day later, a truck driver from Bainepalli in KGF taluk tested positive.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The new patient is a resident of Gandhinagar and hails from Malavalli taluk in Mandya district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After lockdown was relaxed, he went to his native place and returned to Kolar on May 11.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As he had returned from the red zone, he voluntarily went to the hospital for tests. Reports of his throat swabs and blood samples indicated the presence of the virus.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Despite health department officials asking him to be under quarantine, he ventured out and visited his office and various localities in the town.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He kept the health department officials in dark and went to Banashankari area in Bengaluru. The district administration has alerted the health officials in Bengaluru about his stay.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The City Municipal Council declared the 100 metre radius area from his house as containment zone and sealed it down.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The district administration is trying to trace the people who came in contact with him,” deputy commissioner C Satyabhama said.</p>