Mumbai: About 53 journalists in Mumbai have been tested positive for coronavirus, said Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
A special camp was organised at the Azad Maidan in Mumbai on April 16 and April 17, where the BMC collected swab samples of 171 media persons, including electronic and print media journalists, photographers and cameramen.
“Out of the 171 media persons, 53 tested positive for coronavirus,” BMC spokesperson Vijay Khabale said, adding that most of those who tested positive are asymptomatic at present.
All those infected are kept under isolation and efforts are on to trace their contacts.
