CHENNAI: The city corporation shut down the Thiruvanmiyur fruit and vegetable market immediately after a vendor tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday.
On Sunday, a special camp was held where swab samples from 100 vendors were collected. Results will be out tomorrow (Monday), senior officials said. The market falls under the Adyar zone (zone 13) of the civic body, which has registered 27 cases as on Sunday morning according to data published by Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC).
The vendor who tested positive on Sunday is a 63-year-old resident of Indira Nagar and was tested on Friday, sources said. He is now safe and samples of his family members have also been taken. “He used to travel to Koyambedu to purchase vegetables from the wholesale market. It is suspected that he may have got the infection there,” a corporation official said.
Koyambedu market cluster is proving to be the latest source of infection across the city and state, with more than 100 positive cases recorded so far.
Officials said they will try to reopen Thiruvanmiyur market by Wednesday. Vendors will also be decentralised and moved to five different locations in the vicinity to facilitate social distancing, an official said.
Before its closure on Sunday, the market was spread across the North and East Mada streets in Thiruvanmiyur. A month ago, shops were set up in the parking space of the market as well.
Photos of crowding at the market 10 days ago, at a time when intense containment measures were being implemented by GCC, shocked residents across the city.
On Sunday, a special camp was held where swab samples from 100 vendors were collected. Results will be out tomorrow (Monday), senior officials said. The market falls under the Adyar zone (zone 13) of the civic body, which has registered 27 cases as on Sunday morning according to data published by Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC).
The vendor who tested positive on Sunday is a 63-year-old resident of Indira Nagar and was tested on Friday, sources said. He is now safe and samples of his family members have also been taken. “He used to travel to Koyambedu to purchase vegetables from the wholesale market. It is suspected that he may have got the infection there,” a corporation official said.
Koyambedu market cluster is proving to be the latest source of infection across the city and state, with more than 100 positive cases recorded so far.
Officials said they will try to reopen Thiruvanmiyur market by Wednesday. Vendors will also be decentralised and moved to five different locations in the vicinity to facilitate social distancing, an official said.
Before its closure on Sunday, the market was spread across the North and East Mada streets in Thiruvanmiyur. A month ago, shops were set up in the parking space of the market as well.
Photos of crowding at the market 10 days ago, at a time when intense containment measures were being implemented by GCC, shocked residents across the city.
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