Pune: PMC seals zones in Shinde Chhatri & Kedarinagar

PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Wanowrie police have barricaded some localities in the Kedarinagar and Shinde Chhatri areas to arrest Covid-19 spread following sharp rise in cases.

The areas under the Wanowrie civic ward office have recorded 754 positive cases since March 30. “The cases have increased due to the opening of all commercial establishments, increase in traffic flow, people from containment zones visiting Wanowrie for shopping, residents not wearing masks and not maintaining social distance, among other reasons,” assistant municipal commissioner Kunjan Jadhav from the Wanowrie ward office said on Tuesday.
Jadhav said the authorities have barricaded ABC Farm Chowk and Badhai Chowk in Kedarinagar on Salunke Vihar Road and places behind Shinde Chhatri, Inamdar Hospital and Bhairoba nullah as a preventive measure.
The ward office medical officer Irfan Lohare said as many as 350 positive cases were reported in places like Wanowrie, Ramtekdi, Vaiduwadi, Meethanagar and Bhagyodayanagar between June 1 and 18.
“For controlling the spread of the virus, our health workers are conducting door-to-door survey, besides screening people for detecting positive cases. We have identified contacts of people testing positive. Individuals experiencing symptoms akin to coronavirus have been reported to the mobile clinics run by the civic body,” Lohare said.
PMC corporator Prashant Jagtap said, “We had less number of positive cases when compared to other ward offices in the city till recently. But the cases started increasing after the PMC relaxed the lockdown norms.”
Deputy commissioner of police (zone V) Suhas Bawache said, “We have assessed the situation on the sudden rise in positive cases in new areas under the Wanowrie ward office. The Wanowrie police and the PMC then took a call to barricade certain places.”