BMC seals Sanjay Kapoor’s apartment after wife Maheep Kapoor tests COVID positive

The BMC reached the house of Sanjay Kapoor’s wife Mihip Kapoor in Juhu on Tuesday and declared the building as a containment zone. The decision came after Maheep tested positive on Monday after Kareena Kapoor and Amrita Arora contracted the virus. Maheep and Sanjay live with their daughter Shanaya Kapoor On the 6th floor of the building named Hiralaya Apartments. All those who came in contact with the couple are being traced and tested and their RTPCR report is awaited. Those whose report will come positive will be home quarantined for 14 days.

Apparently, they attended a party at the filmmaker’s residence Karan Johar, Apart from this, Maheep Kapoor also went to party with her friends at Juhu, Lokhandwala and 3 other locations. All these will be investigated through contact tracing.

The building of Kareena and Amrita was also sealed by the civic body after their report came positive. According to BMC officials, four people who attended the dinner party have tested positive for coronavirus so far. The civic body has prepared a list of the guests present at the dinner party and their immediate contacts in the last one week and all of them will be tested. A BMC official said some of them have given their swab samples.

“Persons have also been asked to self-isolate at home and avoid contact with other people till the results of RT-PCR are out. we have to seal the building Kareena Kapoor Khan, which has been a standard practice of the civic body,” said Suresh Kakani, additional commissioner (western suburbs), Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.

“We have tested 15 people so far. The details of his immediate contacts and others are being collected to conduct tests,” Kakani said.

-With inputs from Jai Prakash Singh