Surat: The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) placed Hathi Faliya of Begumpura locality in the Walled City under mass quarantine after a 65-year-old man tested Covid-19 positive on Sunday.
This is the second mass quarantined area after Rander where two Covid-19 positive cases were detected.
The SMC officials said that the entire area was sanitized and disinfected on Sunday. “There are about 1,147 houses in the area with the population of more than 6,000 people. All the residents have been asked to stay indoors,” said an SMC official.