Latest reports show that 31 nurses and five doctors from Peddar Road's Jaslok Hospital have tested positive for COVID-19. These nurses had been kept in quarantine at the hospital's Ballard Pier hostel. Though the nurses have tested positive, they are all asymptomatic. However, their health is being monitored. The five doctors include a registrar of medicine, a registrar of pulmonology, senior anaesthetist, a junior anaesthetist and a junior radiologist.

Hospital sources told mid-day that when a positive case was reported in the hospital earlier this month, over 100 of the nursing staff were kept in quarantine at the hostel. Most of the staff had tested negative and so were on compulsory 14 days of quarantine.