Mangaluru : The district administration declared Gundalike area  as a containment zone on Tuesday, May 19.

One coronavirus-positive case on Monday reported at Yeyyadi, Gundalike.

The containment area is bound by an empty house in the east, Yamuna’s house in the west, a hill in the North, and Lalitha’s house in the south. The area contains 14 houses and a total population of 48 people.

The buffer zone of five km around the containment zone is, Padil marking its east boundary, NMPT its west boundary, Marakada in the north boundary and Ratha Beedhi marking its south boundary.

There are 23,600 houses in the buffer zone, and 4,748 shops and offices, covering a population of 1,24,000 people.

Deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh issued an order declaring Gundalike area in Yeyyadi, as an active containment zone.

The executive engineer-1 from Mangaluru City Corporation, Mangaluru, as incident commander who will be in-charge of the containment zone, the order stated.

Jappu Patna has already declared as containment zone.

Dakshina Kannada, 54 positive cases are reported, out of which 32 are currently active. As many as 17 persons have recovered and been discharged, and five deaths have occurred so far.