AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) health department declared 10 new micro-containment zones on Thursday. This is the highest number of containment zones announced in a day after the practice of micro-containment was resumed from November.
New micro containment zones include 164 houses with 605 residents. These containment zones include buildings located in Satellite, Vastrapur, Jodhpur, Makarba, Prernatirth, Sola, Navrangpura, Naranpura and in Chandkheda.
As many as 75 houses with 262 residents in four blocks of a residential society located at Science City road in Sola were brought under micro-containment. While 28 houses with 118 residents in a residential society in Makarba were brought under micro-containment zone. As many as 36 houses in three blocks of a residential society in Vastrapur with 114 residents were micro-contained.
AMC had discontinued the practice of putting buildings in micro-containment zones in the last week of May. However, the practice has been resumed from November as Gujarat and Ahmedabad marked an upward trend in Covid-19 cases.
