Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (MS)

Mangaluru, Apr 30: Following the detection of coronavirus-positive case of a 58-year-old woman from Boloor in the city, the district administration has declared specific area of Boloor village in the taluk as a containment zone.

Deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh on Thursday, April 30, issued an order declaring Boloor as an active containment zone after patient P-536 tested positive for the virus.

The containment zone has James D'Souza House on the east as its boundary, while on the west is Hindu Rudrabhoomi Boloor. The North boundary is marked by Hotel BJ and Hotel Sri Vinayaka on Sulthan Batheri Road. The South boundary is marked by Hindu Rudrabhoomi, Boloor entrance road at Sulthan Batheri.

The order states that the containment zone includes 135 houses, 12 shops with a total population of 640.

Also, a buffer zone of an area of five km around the containment zone has been created, with Bondel marking its east boundary, Arabian Sea as its west boundary, MCF national highway in the north boundary and Nethravathi River Bolar marking its south boundary.

There are 16,350 houses in the buffer zone, and 1,275 shops and offices, covering a population of 79,800 people.

For effective implementation of coronavirus control measures, Executive Engineer-3, Smart City Ltd Mangaluru has been appointed incident commander who will be in-charge of the containment zone, the order stated.

The administration has already declared a few other areas in the district as containment zones. These are Thumbe in Bantwal, Smart planet apartment in Thokkottu, Sampya Mane in Puttur, and Uppinangady in Puttur. Areas around First Neuro Hospital, Padil were also declared as such.