Man returning from Zambia tests positive for Covid, sample sent for genome sequencing

A man that has travelled from Zambia to Pune, has tested positive for Covid-19. He had come back to Mumbai on November 20 and travelled to Pune by taxi.

His sample has been sent for genome sequencing and the results of the same are yet to come.

The Covid-19 patient who tested positive is around 60 years and is stable, asymptomatic and in home isolation for now.


The Pune Municipal Corporation took immediate action and also tested his family members and the driver of the taxi he travelled in. All of them have tested negative.