The spike in Covid-19 cases in the past two days across South 24-Parganas prompted the district administration on Sunday to announce fresh micro-containment zones, primarily in four municipalities and six blocks.
Out of the 46 new micro containment zones announced by district magistrate P. Ulaganathan, 28 are in Maheshtala, Rajpur-Sonarpur, Baruipur and Diamond Harbour municipalities. The remaining containment zones have been marked in Canning 2, Kulpi, Kakdwip, Namkhana, Patharpratima and Sagar blocks.
The objective of creating micro-containment zones is to cause little disruption to public life as well as economic activities. Another goal, according to an official of South 24-Parganas district administration, is to contain the outbreak of Covid in specific geographical areas.
A senior official of South 24-Parganas district administration said: “We have added more areas to our list of micro-containment zones from where new cases have been traced. We have found new cases mostly in municipal areas, which shows lack of awareness of mask culture even among people living in towns.”
The district recorded 115 infections in the past 48 hours.
751 new cases
Bengal on Sunday logged 751 Covid-19 cases, 757 recoveries and 10 deaths as the state completed 84 successive days of a fall in the total number of active infections.
