Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar’s building sealed amidst the ongoing pandemic

portedly, the building has been sealed because it houses many senior citizens. Singer’s family released a statement regarding the issue.

The Nightingale of Bollywood, Lata Mangeshkar’s building has been sealed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) as a precautionary measure amidst the Coronavirus pandemic. The 90-year-old singer resides in Prabhukunj building at Peddar Road in south Mumbai.

Reportedly, the building has been sealed because it houses many senior citizens. According to PTI, a statement released by Mangeshkar’s family read, “We have been inundated by calls all evening enquiring whether Prabhukunj is sealed. The Building Society and the BMC have sealed it from the onset of the epidemic as we have senior citizens at home and in the building and it is mandatory to take these precautions. Even our usual festive Ganesha celebrations were a simple familial one this time to co-operate and support social distancing”.

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Rumours are that a few residents of the building have tested positive for COVID-19, but the singer’s family has asked its well-wishers to not indulge in such presumptions saying “Please do not react to any hearsay on the health of our family members especially. We, as a building society in unison, are taking utmost caution, care, and co-operating to ensure the well being and safety of all the senior citizens especially and all the other residing members as well.”

“By God’s grace and the wishes of so many, the family is safe” the statement read.