AHMEDABAD: The total number of containment zones in the city have touched four with the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation declaring two more micro-containment zones in the city on Wednesday.
Six houses with 20 residents in one of the blocks of a residential society at Shreyas Tekra in Navrangpura were brought under micro-containment. The second micro-containment zone consists of eight houses with 18 residents located at Polytechnic in Ambawadi.
On November 12, the civic body had brought one block of a residential society in Motera locality of Chandkheda under micro-containment. The block had 20 houses with 76 residents. On November 11, six months after the civic body discontinued the practice of declaring micro-containment zones, AMC put a block of an apartment in Isanpur in micro-containment zone. AMC had discontinued the practice of putting buildings in micro-containment zones in the last week of May. However, the practice has been resumed as Gujarat and Ahmedabad marked an upward trend in Covid cases.
House surveillance from today
As cases rise, the civic body will begin house-to-house surveillance and screening to detect Covid cases starting from Thursday. “Our teams will visit houses located near where Covid cases have been reported and carry out screening to detect any symptoms of illness,” said a health department official. He said that the testing will also be done if they find out symptoms.
