Bengaluru, April 23 (IANS) Covid infection spread to nine more people from a 55-year-old man in the city, an official said on Thursday.

"The 55-year-old man is suffering from Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI). He and the other people who got infected were living in close proximity," said a health official to IANS.

Designated as 419th positive case, the 55-year-old man was living in a small hutment in Hongasandra near Bommanahalli with at least four other men.

On Thursday, details of nine men contracting the virus from the 419th case emerged, prompted the authorities to seal off a radius of more than 100 metres in Hongasandra.

"All the people infected through the 55-year-old man are isolated and being monitored in Victoria hospital in the city," the official said.

The man from Bihar reached the city only two months back.

--IANS sth/prs