Gujarat’s Kerala is containment zone

TNN | Updated: May 6, 2020, 08:29 IST

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AHMEDABAD: Among the Indian states, Kerala has been applauded across the globe for its containment strategy with regard to Covid-19. But, Gujarat’s Kerala projects a different picture — finding itself marked with red colour in the list of containment areas, though it is not a hotspot of positive cases.
This tiny village is situated 40-odd kilometres from Ahmedabad. In completely contrast to Kerala state, this village is surrounded by a sprawling industrial zone, the GIDC. As entire Ahmedabad district has been marked as red zone, Kerala too faces complete restrictions on human movement and commercial activities.
This village has got only one active Covid-19 positive case, and has been meted out with rather harsh treatment. On Sunday, Ahmedabad district collector placed 125 families, some 413 persons, in B R Steel Pvt Ltd area in the village under containment. Besides, the extended village area of 30 families has been placed in the buffer zone.
The district collector has marked 16 containment areas in rural areas of Ahmedabad district on the basis of 28 active Covid-19 positive cases. There are 9,284 people of 2,511 families who are in containment areas. In buffer zones, there are 11,883 people in 3,266 families.
In all, there are 54 Covid-19 positive cases in rural Ahmedabad as compared to over 4,000 positive cases detected from Ahmedabad city.