Chennai: Luxury hotels are emerging as a Covid-19 cluster after educational institutions in Chennai. In total, as many as 114 employees have tested positive for Covid-19 out of the 2,226 tested at city’s star-category hotels, sources said.
The Greater Chennai Corporation has reported a cluster of Covid-19 positive cases among employees of The Leela Palace. Corporation officials have asked top hotels to cancel all banquets for a few days.
The civic body is using a saturation approach (a method to test everyone in a hotspot) in at least 35 luxury hotels in the city that are host weddings and public functions.
Grand Chola had recently recorded 85 infections in the past 15 days, with the Greater Chennai Corporation instructing the hotel not to hold any events or gatherings for some days.
Following employees and guests testing positive, the civic body has advised saturation testing of all the hotel occupants.
It is said that all those who tested positive for the virus, are either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms and have since then been isolated.
Early last month, IIT-M registered over 190 positive cases, sending the administration into a tizzy.
This was followed by stringent testing at various other colleges and hostels across the State.