Gurugram: 9 areas off list of containment zones, total 100

GURUGRAM: Nine areas in the city have been removed from the list of containment zones while three others have been added. With this, the number of containment zones in Gurugram has come down from 106 to 100.
While there are no changes in Pataudi and Sohna blocks, areas in Firoz Gandhi Colony have been removed from the list. The colony, which recently saw a spike in the number of Covid-19 cases, has been identified as a large outbreak region (LOR).
Areas added to the list include New Harijan Basti in Harijan Chopal area in Naharpur Kasan, Gali No. 3 in Tekchand Nagar and Gate No. 2 in Sector 9.
C-301, Lagoon Apartments in Nathupur; Towers 1, 4, B1, A4, B2 in Uniworld Garden-2, Sector 47; Tower G in Park View, Sector 49 are among the nine areas that have been denotified as containment zones.
The difference between the containment zones and large outbreak regions is that while the former are areas where five or more Covid cases have been reported, the latter are those with 15 or more cases.
The health department has given instructions to the urban primary health centres and primary health centres located in the containment zones to increase the number of RT-PCR tests.
“We want to test the maximum number of people tested in the containment zones,” said a health department-nt official.
While Gurgaon block now has 89 containment zones, Pataudi has four and Sohna seven. Sohna has recently seen a spike in Covid cases, due to which some of its areas have been notified as large outbreak regions. Divisional commissioner Ashok Sangwan and chief medical officer Virender Yadav visited the area on Thursday.
The last containment order was released on July 10. From that day to July 16, Gurugram’s cases have gone from 6,578 to 7,350.
On Thursday, 142 new cases were reported, while 120 people recovered. The city has 1,043 active cases.