As many as 3,000 homes are under the quarantine watch for coronavirus in greater Chennai Corporation limits and such houses will be stamped with stickers to ensure social distancing, the city civic body said on Monday.
"All the houses where home quarantine suspected people are residing, stickers will be pasted for alerting others and to ensure social distancing, the corporation said in a release. The corporation, the biggest in Tamil Nadu, said "right now 3,000 homes are under quarantine watch in greater chennai corporation limits. "
On the stamping of stickers, it said this was a "time of emergency and it has to be taken in the right spirit," in an apparent appeal to people to cooperate.
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