Containment Zone tag removed from 9 Guwahati areas; find out where

Several areas in Guwahati city have been tagged as Containment Zone to arrest the spread of the Covid-19
Containment Zone tag removed from 9 Guwahati areas; find out where

Guwahati: On June 24, the Kamrup (Metro) district administration has revoked the Containment Zone status of as many as  areas in Guwahati city after no new Covid-19 positive cases were detected.

The areas which will no longer be treated as Containment Zones are as follows:

SBI Guest House in Sarumotoria

Krishnanagar, Gosala, Maligaon

Netaji Vidyapith HS School, Maligaon

Pragjyotish Housing Colony, Block-II

Bishnupur

Santipur

Sankar Nagar

Dhirenpara

Athgaon-II SJ Road

However, if the area is covered by the area declared under the lockdon on June 23, people of the locality will have to obey the measures announced the Government, Kamrup (M) DC Biswajit Pegu said in an order. At the same time, the district administration has advised the residents of the area to follow all the protocols for preventing the Covid-19 outbreak.

Meanwhile, Kamrup (Metro) Deputy Commissioner Biswajit Pegu said that areas under 11 wards of Guwahati city shall be placed under a lockdown yet again from. The lockdown which came into effect on June 23 will last for a period of 14 days and the Government has again issued a new set of directives that must be followed.

This development came a day after Assam Health and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that 144 cases without travel history have been detected in the city since targetted surveillance was brought into effect in a bid to contain the virus spread. Sarma also added that on average, 400-500 people have been going for regular screenings at the facilities which have been opened up to collect samples. "Nobody had said anything for them, people are coming due to their own anxiety. Out of these, we got 114 positive cases. If they had not come forward, we would not have gotten these cases."

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