NOIDA: Four people tested positive for Covid-19 in Noida on Saturday, one of whom is from JJ Colony in Sector 8. The colony, with 34 cases so far, is the source of Noida’s second biggest cluster of cases and the administration is now drafting a special containment plan for the area.
A 49-year-old who tested positive on Saturday is among 29 patients from JJ Colony in Sector 8. He works with a food retail company that supplies lunch for the district’s integrated control room staff. There are four other cases at JJ Colony in Sector 5 and one at JJ Colony in Sector 10, all adjoining.
To prevent a Cease Fire-like recurrence — the company became the district’s biggest cluster with a contact chain that kept getting longer — the administration has started working on a special containment plan for JJ Colony in the three sectors. For now, three steps are immediately being taken. The first is strict enforcement of sealing restrictions with constant monitoring. The second is deep sanitisation of every single house — usually, it’s just the common areas that are sanitised. The final step is stationing a doctor for three to four hours at least thrice a week for anyone who wants a checkup.
“We have conducted three rounds of surveillance in the area, while it is usually done just once. Monitoring is essential here because the population density is much higher, which disrupts social distancing norms. During contact tracing, we quarantine all primary and secondary contacts of the patients immediately,” said Narendra Bhooshan, nodal officer for the district’s Covid-19 response. For every person in the colony who has tested positive, about 10 to 15 people have been sent into quarantine. The average in other areas is around five contacts — primary ones. In JJ Colony, primary as well as secondary contacts are being quarantined.
The three others who tested positive on Saturday are a 22-year-old woman from Sector 66 near Mamura, a 23-year-old woman from Chipyana Buzurg village in Noida Extension and a 39-year-old woman from Sector 48. The source of infection of none of them has been traced so far.
Noida now has 159 reported cases, of which 65 are active. Four patients were discharged — two each from Child PGI and Sharda Hospital.
Hotspot list to be revised
District officials are now working on a revision of containment zones, with a focus on 10 areas where more cases have been reported. As of now, Noida has 33 containment zones, of which 24 are in the red zone and nine in the orange zone.
The administration is waiting for guidelines from the state to finalise what relaxations can be made after May 3. The concern, for now, is about opening industries, several of which have put in requests. “We are not sure if containment zones will continue to be colour-coded. As the directives come, we will decide which services and industries can open and where,” district magistrate Suhas LY said.
A 49-year-old who tested positive on Saturday is among 29 patients from JJ Colony in Sector 8. He works with a food retail company that supplies lunch for the district’s integrated control room staff. There are four other cases at JJ Colony in Sector 5 and one at JJ Colony in Sector 10, all adjoining.
To prevent a Cease Fire-like recurrence — the company became the district’s biggest cluster with a contact chain that kept getting longer — the administration has started working on a special containment plan for JJ Colony in the three sectors. For now, three steps are immediately being taken. The first is strict enforcement of sealing restrictions with constant monitoring. The second is deep sanitisation of every single house — usually, it’s just the common areas that are sanitised. The final step is stationing a doctor for three to four hours at least thrice a week for anyone who wants a checkup.
“We have conducted three rounds of surveillance in the area, while it is usually done just once. Monitoring is essential here because the population density is much higher, which disrupts social distancing norms. During contact tracing, we quarantine all primary and secondary contacts of the patients immediately,” said Narendra Bhooshan, nodal officer for the district’s Covid-19 response. For every person in the colony who has tested positive, about 10 to 15 people have been sent into quarantine. The average in other areas is around five contacts — primary ones. In JJ Colony, primary as well as secondary contacts are being quarantined.
The three others who tested positive on Saturday are a 22-year-old woman from Sector 66 near Mamura, a 23-year-old woman from Chipyana Buzurg village in Noida Extension and a 39-year-old woman from Sector 48. The source of infection of none of them has been traced so far.
Noida now has 159 reported cases, of which 65 are active. Four patients were discharged — two each from Child PGI and Sharda Hospital.
Hotspot list to be revised
District officials are now working on a revision of containment zones, with a focus on 10 areas where more cases have been reported. As of now, Noida has 33 containment zones, of which 24 are in the red zone and nine in the orange zone.
The administration is waiting for guidelines from the state to finalise what relaxations can be made after May 3. The concern, for now, is about opening industries, several of which have put in requests. “We are not sure if containment zones will continue to be colour-coded. As the directives come, we will decide which services and industries can open and where,” district magistrate Suhas LY said.
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