CHENNAI: The number of containment zones in Tondiarpet have jumped from 24 to 38 within a period of two days.
Twenty of the 38 containment zones in Tondiarpet were initiated on a single day of June 23. This included four new streets in BV Colony and other streets or part of streets in Moopanar Nagar and Retraikuzhi street.
Express has earlier reported that officials found bringing the cases of Covid 19 in the zone a challenge because the zone has an average of 6-8 residents in a house and included a lot of densely populated areas including 144 slums.
This has brought the city-wide total to 90 as on Wednesday while it was at 61 as on Monday, according to Corporation data.
Besides this, Kodambakkam zone had 17 containment zones of which containment in six streets were initiated on June 20. The rest had been in containment since May or the first week of June.
Valasaravakkam had nine containment zones, all of which were brought under containment on June 19.
Teynampet and Anna Nagar zones have eight containment zones each.
A full list of containment zones are enclosed.