40 persons booked in Chennai for violating home quarantine norms

Chennai, June 12 (IANS) The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) on Friday said FIRs had been lodged after it lodged police complaints against 40 coronavirus patients for breaching home quarantine norms and moving out.

In a statement issued here, the GCC said first information reports (FIR) were registered against these patients for putting other people’s lives at risk.

The GCC said those asymptomatic for coronavirus infections are home-quarantined and monitored by it but there were complaints about such persons going out of their homes and infecting others.

According to GCC, the contacts of such persons will also be quarantined in Covid-19 centres.

–IANS

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