The news of a Biriayni delivery boy testing coronapositive positive in the capital city has left the residents of Mancheswar and Surya Nagar shell-shocked.
The 36-year-old food delivery agent is among the three positive cases reported from the city on Thursday.
According to sources, the youth was working for a Biriyani takeaway joint in Patia area and was mostly delivering food parcels at Surya Nagar.
A few days ago, he developed Covid-19 symptoms following which he called up the 104 Helpline. The health officials then collected swab samples for confirmatory test and the results were out in the evening.
The youth living in a rented accommodation with his parentsat Chakeisiani under the Mancheswar police station was admitted to a Covid Hospital here.
The residents in Chakeisiani and Surya Nagar are in panic as the officials have begun contact tracing to ascertain with how many persons he had come in contact with.
As his area of operation was mostly Surya Nagar, it is suspected that he might have contracted the disease from one of the patients detected earlier in the area.
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation is likely to seal these areas for intensive contact tracing.