Six locals in a village of Khargone district have been tested positive for covid19 after getting a haircut at the same barber shop.
Out of around two dozen samples taken from the customers of the shop in Bargaon village in Khargoen district, six have been tested positive, Interestingly the barber was tested negative when tested for the virus.
Factually, a local man who worked at an Indore hotel had recently returned to his native village in Khargone and he was the source of virus. Though the man was healthy but some of his colleagues in Indore had tested positive for the virus.
The man had got a hair cut and shave at a local barber shop and was later tested positive for covid19. As a precautionary measure, the administration tested close to a dozen other customers of the shop, six of whom tested positive, said Dr Divyesh Verma, Khargone Chief Medical and Health Officer said.
After the detection of six patients, the village has been sealed and screening is underway.
The families of those tested positive have been home quarantined and their samples are being taken for tests.
Till now the Khargone districts, one of the red zones in Madhya Pradesh, has reported 60 positive cases including nine deaths.
The man who returned from Indore has now recovered from the disease after treatment. Total 26 samples were taken from customers of the barber shop and 17 had earlier tested negative and out of nine, six tested positive on Thursday late evening. The test repots of the three is still awaited.
It is said that the barber had used a same piece of cloth while offering hair cut and shave to customers. The gram panchayat has started sanitisation work in the village.