At least 2.91 lakh people under cluster containment in Surat

TNN | Apr 15, 2020, 04:00 IST

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Surat: The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Tuesday included nine more clusters under the 'Red Zones' category and warned people living there to keep themselves 'home quarantined' or face legal actions under the Epidemic Disease Act-1897.
With this the SMC has put total 12 clusters with population of 2.91 lakh and 61,982 houses under mandatory home quarantine. The civic body has made public the names of the societies, localities put under cluster containment zones also know as Red Zones.
“SMC had already declared Rander, Begampura and Lokhat hospital under cluster containment. Now we have added more clusters in different parts of the city and the residents of these localities will have to remain inside homes or SMC will take legal actions against them,” said SMC commissioner Banchhanidhi Pani.
“We have created Red Zone, Yellow Zone (Buffer zone) and Green Zone in the city to deal with the global pandemic.
Total 68 teams are engaged in contact tracing of Covid-19 positive patients in Red Zones in the city. Mass testing has already begun in Surat,” added Pani. On Monday, 590 samples were taken for testing as part of the mass testing drive and their reports awaited.
Pani has appealed to people to maintain social distancing and wear masks whenever they come out of their house to ensure safety of all.
“Till now, 1,491 people have been penalized for not maintaining social distancing and 1,129 penalized for not wearing masks in the city in last few days. We request people to inform us about those flaunting norms so that action can be taken against them,” said Pani.