Madrasa student from UP makes Nanjangud nervous after Jubilant experience

Mysuru: A 22-year-old man who returned from Uttar Pradesh after learning Arabic at a madrasa there is giving sleepless nights to people in Nanjangud in Karnataka.

The man tested positive for COVID-19 upon his return and his mother and two brothers too were confirmed to be infected. Health authorities have moved in and taken samples from as many as 193 people in the containment zone around his house.

The latest cases has left the people of Nanjangud in jitters after the experience of the Jubilant Pharma cluster of cases  which kept authorities here on tenterhooks for more than two months.

The young man had gone to Deoband in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh to learn Arabic. Returning from the seminary, he reached Bengaluru on 22 May and was quarantined at a facility there. On June 1 he was sent home to Nanjangud.

The man claimed he had not been tested for COVID-19 in Bengaluru. On 2 June health officers in Nanjangud took his sample but his report was negative for COVID-19. On 6 June they took another sample which returned positive.

This week, his 44-year-old mother, his two teenaged brothers also tested positive. Hence samples of 193 people from around his house at Neelkantnagar in Nanjangud have now been drawn for testing. Four people who tested positive are asymptomatic and they are being treated at the designated COVID-19 hospital in Mysuru.

Nanjangud played home to 59 cases from the Jubilant pharma cluster. At one point there were 28 containment zones with 14 in the town and 14 in the villages around. All those patients were cured and all containment zones were lifted last month.

Meanwhile, 54-year-old person who returned to Mysuru from Maharashtra has become the transgender to test positive for COVID-19 in Karnataka.

Mysuru has reported a total of 120 corona positive cases and only 14 cases are active. Those 120 cases include one from UP and three of his primary contacts, a transgender from Maharashtra, two from Tamil Nadu, one from Ireland, 22 from Mumbai, 74 cases related to the Jubilant cluster, 10 religious missionaries from Tablighi Jamaat who had come from Delhi in January end, one person who returned from Dubai, one Keralite who returned from Dubai, one primary contact of a Keralite, two cases of severe acute respiratory infection who were tested positive for Covid 19, one primary contact of SARI case.