The Calcutta Municipal Corporation has decided to adopt a three-pronged strategy to bring down Covid-19 cases in areas from where new patients are being reported every day, senior civic body officials said on Sunday.

The corporation plans to decongest markets by shifting some stalls to parks and open grounds, checking whether there is any gap in the implementation of measures in containment zones and starting a mic campaign from a moving vehicle on the lines of the dengue awareness programme.

The strategies would be implemented first in Borough IV covering Jorabagan, Jorasanko, and Burrabazar and Borough VII covering Topsia, Tiljala and neighbouring areas, which have had civic officials worried for some time because of the rising number of cases.

The decisions were taken at a meeting attended by mayor Firhad Hakim on Sunday.

Hakim will visit Burrabazar on Monday to assess what more can be done to contain the spread of infection in the area, a senior civic official said.

“We decided to decongest the markets so that the necessary physical distance between two people is maintained. It is also important to check if there are gaps in implementing micro-management plans within containment zones. Extensive public education campaigns are theneed of the hour,” said a senior corporation official.

The civic body prepares a micro-plan for all containment zones to ensure that new cases do not emerge from the area. A containment zone is usually a neighbourhood surrounding a house from where someone has tested positive for Covid-19. People are not allowed to step out of a containment zone and outsiders are not allowed to enter.