PUNE: The Pune municipal limits ushered in the New Year without any micro-containment zone on Thursday, while the sealed areas in Pimpri Chinchwad localities stayed at 31.
There were six micro-containment zones in Hadapsar and Pune-Satara Road areas of the civic limits as per the December 4 order.
Pune municipal commissioner Vikram Kumar said the officers of the respective ward offices will work as incident commander from now as all the micro-containment zones were removed, effective midnight. If any area, building or housing complex registers Covid-19 cases, the ward officers may declare that particular location as a micro-containment zone, Kumar said.
Most of the time during the lockdown and unlock phases, the lowest number of cases were found in Kothrud ward office, followed by Aundh and Baner ward office. The densely populated areas such as Peth areas, Parvati and Patil Estate had maximum number of positive cases. Hence, they were in containment zones for the longest time.
Varsha Dange, assistant medical officer, PCMC, on Thursday said there were 31 active containment zones in the eight zones in the civic limits. PCMC additional commissioner Ajit Pawar told TOI that the civic body was focussing more on home isolation due to the asymptomatic nature of the Covid-19 patients, rather than containment zones from the past few weeks.