VRK Puram village of Mulugu district, Telangana is under quarantine from the 4th of September.
The decision was taken as a precautionary measure to control the spread of the Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19.
In the past 24 hours, nearly 100 people who had food at a ceremony tested positive for the COVID-19 infection.
Recently, several people attended the 10th-day ceremony at the home of a deceased and had meals.
A few days after the ceremony, half of the people who attended the ceremony tested positive for the virus. The healthcare officials were alerted over the incident who are conducting the tests for all the people in the village.
There are a total 500 persons in the village, of which 98 have tested positive so far.
While many of them are home quarantined, some people have been shifted to hospital. With the report of a massive number of cases, the officials barricaded the roads restricting the entry of people into the village.
According to the officials, the number of positive cases in the village is believed to rise as people turning up at the test centres to undergo the Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) and also reports of many are pending.
In the last 24 hours, Telangana reported a total of 2,478 Coronavirus positive cases and 10 deaths.
With this, Telangana has 1,35,884 positive cases, of which 32,994 active cases, 1,02,024 recovered/discharged and 866 deceased.
Stay tuned for further updates.
