PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to keep all areas under its jurisdiction completely free of micro-containment zones.
The first review of the containment zones in the new year and the decision of not introducing any new containment zones was taken on Monday. “The containment zones in the civic areas were declared as ‘zero’ on December 31. It will continue as is. The civic areas will not have any containment zones,” Vikram Kumar, the PMC commissioner, said.
He said even other regulations pertaining to social distancing and commuting would remain the same. According to PMC officials, the civic administration introduces containment zones based on the positive cases in a particular area or housing complex. But, since a month, there hasn’t been a massive increase in such cases.
For the first time since the Covid outbreak, the PMC had sealed the Peth areas, Maharshinagar to RTO and parts of Kondhwa, on April 6. After that, some other areas including Nagar Road, Parvati Darshan, Patil Estate were sealed on April 13. For eight months since then, some areas in the civic limits were under containment zones. On December 31, the PMC reduced the zones to zero, following the massive decline in deaths and new cases, a civic official said.