26 containment zones now
Covid-19 claimed yet another life in the Faridabad district after a 45-year-old man hailing from Faridabad’s Bharat Colony died in the hospital in the wee hours today. He is the sixth person to die from the disease. This is also the second death in the past 48 hours, after a 17-year-old girl had died on Friday morning. The total number of positive cases has also risen to 147 after three more persons were found positive in the past 24 hours.
According to the health department officials, the latest victim had been shifted to ESI Hospital here on May 13 after he was found to be positive. A patient of diabetes, he was undergoing treatment in a private hospital when he was tested positive after symptoms of fever.
The Faridabad district administration increased the number of containment zones in the district from 14 to 26, with new additions in the residential areas. The district administration added 14 new areas to the revised list of containment zones, while two zones in the district were de-notified after no Covid-19 cases were reported from these areas in the last 28 days.
As on May 17, 2020 till 11:00 AM
>>Total Cases – 147
>>Active Cases – 60
>>Cured/Discharged – 77
>>Asymptomatic (+ve) – 4
>>Deaths – 6
The newly added containment zones in the city are: areas of Sanjay Colony in Sector 23, Sector 23 A, plot numbers 1136 to 2982 of Sector 62, Adarsh Colony, pockets of EWS plots of Sector 18 Housing Board Colony, Fatehpur Chandila, village Mahola, village Sihi, Shiv Sharda Colony in Ballabhgarh, Sector 9, Sector 17, Sector 10, Indira Colony. Lanes adjacent to Railway Road and the sector-dividing roads of sectors 22 and 24 have also been categorised as containment zones.
The administration used to take a three-kilometre area as containment zone but now they are covering a radius of 500 metres from the epicentre of the infection and are conducting screening, sampling, and testing of suspected cases residing in that area. They have assigned tasks to all the ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers and each one of them has been asked to collect 25 samples.
The administration is also taking details from the chemist shop regarding the sale of fever, flu, and cough medicines and have been asked to take down the mobile number and residential address of each customer.
Faridabad had sealed its borders with Delhi last month, prohibiting the entry of all commuters, including essential workers, until May 17 and the police said the plan is likely to remain the same for this month.