While Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan are undergoing treatment for coronavirus, the BMC is tracking all those who came in contact with the family before they tested positive. In the last 14 days, 288 persons came in direct contact with the Bachchans, out of which 81 are at high risk while others are at low risk. Those at high risk have been tested for COVID-19 and the reports are negative, except for 14, whose reports are yet to come. The BMC War Room is continuously calling out those who came in contact with the Bachchans.
Both Abhishek and Amitabh are in the ICU backup room of the special A wing ward of Nanavati Hospital. A team of five doctors is treating the actors along with a team of specialist nurses, who are working in three shifts.
As per the latest information, Amitabh is doing fine now. Neither he has breathing issues nor fever. BMC team is constantly in touch with doctors, PRO and health teams of Nanavati Hospital.
As per SOP, the COVID-19 positive patients are tested again within 5-10 days after they are admitted to the hospital. As per information, Abhishek and Amitabh Bachchan's second test will take place on the seventh day.
Under Maharashtra Government's Chase The Virus drive, BMC's Assistant Municipal Commissioner Vishwas Mote along with other officials met Amitabh and Abhishek's managers and family members on July 12. As per information, 14 people from Sound and Vision Studio, where Abhishek was dubbing for his web series Breathe, have been tested. Their reports are yet to come.
According to BMC's list, 81 came in contact with Big B in the last 14 days, out of which 26 are under high risk. All of them have been tested COVID-19 negative. the BMC officials are taking constant health updates of the low-risk contacts.
Meanwhile, among 207 who came in contact with Abhishek Bachchan, 55 are at high risk. All of them have been tested except 14.
All the staffs and employees of Bachchans are in Janak, the bungalow of Bachchan family, which has now been converted into an isolation centre. The BMC is regularly sanitising all the four bungalows of the Bachchans.
On Saturday, Amitabh and Abhishek took to Twitter to confirm that they have been tested COVID-19 positive. On Sunday, Abhishek revealed that even Aishwarya and their daughter Aaradhya are also COVID-19 positives.
