Mumbai: An area with 26,000 people has been sealed in 3,000 houses in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district and ordered home quarantine after people tested positive for the novel coronavirus a day earlier, followed on Friday by 10 more who had been in contact with them, an official said.
Deputy Municipal Magistrate RS Bakna said that people of ward number 47 in Prem Nagar and ward areas attended a function organized by the couple on 20 March.
PTI quoted SDM saying, “A man returned from Dubai on March 17. Both of whom later tested positive, organised a function on March 20. As a precautionary measure, around 26000 people living in 3000 houses have been ordered home quarantine for 14 days.”
He said samples of 22 people living close to the couple’s residence have been sent for coronavirus testing.
“Morena Resident Medical Officer (BMO) Dr Padmesh Upadhyay has been tasked to keep a watch over the cordoned off area,” he said.
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