A wedding ceremony turned into a superspreader event after 87 guests tested positive for COVID-19 in India.
Health authorities are now conducting a massive contact tracing and testing in Telangana following the result of the tests.
The wedding took place in Hanmajipet village of Nizamabad district in Telangana.
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According to a report from India Today, all of the 370 attendees underwent a swab test, those who tested positive were immediately placed under home isolation.
Meanwhile, a COVID-19 camp was set up in the neighboring village of Siddapoor after several residents who also attended the wedding tested positive for COVID.
Many of those residents were admitted to a government hospital in Nizamabad district.
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The said district recorded 96 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours.
On Monday, India logged over 100,000 COVID-19 cases, the second country to do so after the United States. (RA)
