Twenty people, who were infected by a housemaid, have been found corona positive in the Tarun Enclave of Pitampura area of Delhi. The Enclave has now been declared as a containment zone.

The entire area was declared a containment zone on June 3 as cases increased. As a precautionary measure more than 750 people ranging from house number 130 to 340 in Tarun Enclave has been asked to live in self-quarantine.

According to the DM, the first case of corona positive was reported on May 24 and since then the 20 more cases have been registered here. It was on May 24 the area was sealed.

The root cause of the corona spread has been located to a house where a maid used to come regularly, infecting children and then all the people of the house got corona positive.

The area was sealed on 24 May only after the corona patients’ case surfaced and DC, North MCD were asked to undergo sanitation in this regard. On June 3, seeing the corona case increasing, the entire area has been declared as a containment zone.

It is reported that the corona infection has taken place in this area from a house where a maid used to come regularly. The children were infected and then all the people of the house got infected.

The infection from children occurred to other children playing in the colony and then from those children to their respective families.

The elders of the house also used to visit the park every evening, where the infection spread to other people and then spread to other houses, said sources.

This sequence continued until a person was diagnosed with fever and corona-like symptoms, after which this chain of the corona was detected.