KOLKATA: It’s mission Borough X for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Covid-combat team, as several of its wards continue to reel under the virus infection. According to a KMC health department official, the civic team is struggling to contain the Covid spread from New Alipore to Lake Gardens despite having declared multiple micro containment zones in the past two weeks.
According to a member in KMC’s Covid combat team, while Covid cases were on the decline in a number of boroughs, it was on a rise in Borough X.
The biggest concern for the civic body and city police is that this borough has as many as 12 micro-containment zones (out of 33 in the city) spread across New Alipore, Lake Gardens, Jodhpur Park and Netaji Nagar. Borough 3 (Phoolbagan-Beliaghata) has five micro-containment zones and boroughs 7, 8 and 9 now have two micro-containment zones each.
The KMC-KP joint team in Borough X is focusing on high-rises and housing complexes where the case count remains steady. Deputy mayor Atin Ghosh is set to hold an important meeting at the Borough X office on Thursday to take stock of the situation and chalk out a fresh strategy to combat Covid.
According to South City Residents’ Association secretary Manoj Gupta, though the infection rate had come down by 50% in the past one week, there were still 100 active cases in the complex. “We are following all sorts of Covid protocols as directed by the state health department and the KMC. We are ready to cooperate with the government and the civic body to deal with any emergencies,” Gupta said.
Debjani Mukherjee a director of Urbana facility management said though the high-rise located off EM Bypass has exited the micro-containment list, they were vigilant as there were still 40 active cases in the complex.
Fresh areas under Borough X have been included in the new list of containment zones that were released on Monday by KMC health department team. There are 49 addresses in New Alipore. The other containment zones in borough X are located at Selimpur, Lake Gardens, Jadavpur and Netaji Nagar. A total of 57 addresses are in the micro-containment list.
Four addresses in Beliaghata-Phoolbagan continued to feature in the micro-containment list for the fifth time.
Kolkata Police said it has stepped up joint awareness campaigns with KMC at high-rises and all markets, especially in boroughs VIII and X.
