At 1.4k, Ghaziabad sees threefold rise in containment zones

Ghaziabad: In wake of the rising number of Covid-19 cases in Ghaziabad, the administration has decided to increase the number of containment zones.
After the move, the number of such red zones in the district increased to 1,470 on May 3 — a nearly threefold rise from 516 on April 17, officials informed.
In the same period, the district has seen a 72% surge in active Covid cases in its containment zones.
The district, as of May 3, had 1,470 containment zones and 42 cluster zones with 8,442 active cases. Indirapuram and Kaushambi are the worst hit with 2,093 and 1,021 active cases, respectively.
This is followed by Sahibabad, which has 38 containment zones and 962 cases, Vijay Nagar with 115 containment zones and 881 cases while Kavi Nagar has 51 containment zones and 846 cases.
“Situation in Kaushambi is such that there are no building towers in the area that has not been hit by the pandemic,” said Vinay Kumar Mittal, president Kaushambi Apartments Resident Welfare Association.
“The area till mid-April had 280 cases in 27 containment zones. Now, it has over 1,000 cases in 27 containment zones,” added Mittal who is undergoing treatment at a hospital due to COVID,” he added. Mittal and his wife are also in a hospital recuperating from Covid-related complications.
Alok Kumar of Fed AOA said, in Indirapuram, there are 65 highrises and of them, 90% have one or more active cases.
“Amrapali Village society has 300 active cases. Since April 10, all affected societies have reported at least one death,” said Kumar.
With the situation out of control and the administration and health department ill-equipped to deal with the crisis, the RWAs are now providing relief to the residents.
“We started our own isolation wards and even arranged for oxygen cylinders,” said Ashish Kumar of Supertech Apartment.
Nirala Eden Garden, Cloud 9 and Amrapali Village are few societies that have isolation wards.
“In Kaushamabi, we started a daily sanitisation drive. The administration was carrying out the drive once in two days,” said Mittal.
Kumar was, however, in praise for the effort made by the administration to deal with the oxygen crisis. “They have opened oxygen refilling spots in every zone, which is quite helpful in providing oxygen to patients in home isolation. This has, to some extent, addressed the problem of oxygen shortage,” he added.