NE NEWS SERVICE
GANDHINAGAR, MAY 31
Over 20 lakh people are placed under the containment and micro-containment zones across Gujarat, excluding Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, as per the revised list issued by the state government on Sunday.
A separate list will be issued for Ahmedabad civic area.
Ahmedabad district accounts for the maximum number of 12,180 cases of the total 16,794 cases in the state. The number of COVID-19 fatalities in the district rose to 842 on Sunday.
As per the list, the number of people residing in containment zones in the Surat Municipal Corporation area rose to 13.6 lakh in the fifth phase of the lockdown, compared to 8.4 lakh in the fourth phase of the lockdown.
“Total persons living in containment zone in Surat district, which has so far reported 1,620 coronavirus cases, now stands at 14.3 lakh,” it said.
Over 52,000 are placed in containment zones in the Vadodara district, which has so far reported 1,043 COVID-19 cases, it said.
In Gandhinagar, more than 1 lakh people are placed in containment zones, with a majority of 74,837 concentrated in rural areas compared to 34,753 in the city area.
Barring the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation area for which a list will be issued separately, a total of 20,11,360 people have been placed under containment zones covering 4,27,878 houses, it said.
Over 13 lakh people were placed within containment zones in Ahmedabad district apart from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation in the fourth phase of the lockdown.
As per the state’s new guidelines regarding the fifth phase of the lockdown, containment zones in the state remain under restrictions with only essential services being allowed there between 7 am and 7 pm for municipal areas. People having houses in such areas not allowed leaving for work in other areas.
Ahmedabad corona count crosses 12K-mark; death toll 842
The COVID-19 case count in Ahmedabad went up by 299 to 12,180 on Sunday while the death toll rose by 20 to 842, a Health department official said.
A total of 601 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery, the official said.
While eight of the 299 cases and two of the 20 fatalities were reported from outside the Ahmedabad district municipal corporation limits, the rest were reported from the city area.
With 299 new cases and 20 deaths, Ahmedabad district now accounts for 12,180 of the total 16,794 cases in the state.
Meanwhile, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has said that only shops selling essential items, nursing homes, and private practitioners are allowed to work in containment zones in the city between 7 am and 7 pm in line with the relaxations granted by the state government during the fifth phase of the lockdown.
The civic body is yet to come out with the new list of containment and micro-containment zones.
Amid the rising number of coronavirus cases, the municipal corporation has requisitioned 2,964 beds across 38 private hospitals in addition to 2,964 beds available in civil hospitals and hospitals run by the civic body and the state government.
In its recent reply to the Gujarat High Court, the state government said a total of 2,234 patients have been treated in COVID Care Centre in Ahmedabad.
The AMC has converted 24 more hotels with 1,171 beds into COVID Care centres, and 152 patients have already been treated in these hotels, it said.
The civic body has also engaged four hotels where asymptomatic COVID-19 patients can seek treatment at their own cost. A total of 238 patients have been treated and recovered there, it said.
