After two persons tested positive in Puri on Sunday, the district administration on Monday morning brought the surrounding area near the sea beach under a containment zone banning public movement and sealing the entry and exit roads with barricades.
From Marine Drive Road Chhak to Bholanath Kutir Chhak via Renuka Hotel lane and from Bholanath Kutir Chhak to Marine Drive Road Chhak via Mahodadhi Bhaban lane, the area was declared the containment zone from 7 am on Monday. All business outlets and Government and private offices would remain shut. Only medicine stores would be opened. The Municipality Executive Officer was assigned the charge of delivery of essential commodities to the households of the area at their doorsteps.
Notably, Puri had been categorised as a green zone on May 3.
The two persons now infected by the coronavirus belong to a three-member family, which was living in its own hotel near the beach. A week ago, the father-mother-son trio had returned from Kolkata and had registered their names with the district administration as returnees. After giving blood samples, they were remaining in home quarantine. On Sunday, the blood test reports came out positive for mother and son.
Reportedly, the son was a student of a Bhubaneswar-based technical institute. After returning from Kolkata to Puri, he had visited Bhubaneswar twice and played with friends in a club in Puri despite strict order of home quarantine on the family. Sources added that the father, also a Kolkata returnee, had also visited several places in Puri for marketing and met various people.Covid status:
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