Cuttack shutdown till July 8 midnight for contact tracing
Cuttack/Bhubaneswar: The Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) on Saturday imposed shutdown till July 8 midnight and continue with the weekend shutdown after 11 fresh cases were reported while another locality in capital city was made containment zone after 10 Covid-19 positive cases were reported from the area on Friday.
“We declared four days of shutdown due to the rapid rise in Covid-19 cases in the city. It will help us launch contact tracing and active surveillance,” said CMC commissioner Ananya Das. A health official and sanitation teams have been deployed to monitor the situation. A team has been engaged to carry out contact tracing, she added.
However, shops selling essential items like grocery, vegetables and milk shops have been allowed to remain open from 5 am to 6 pm during the shutdown period with proper adherence to social distancing norms and use of masks. Emergency services like medicine stores and online delivery of essential commodities will be allowed during the shutdown period too. Other services like water and electricity supply will function too.
With 11 new cases, Cuttack city’s total positive count stood at 116 out of which 92 are active cases.
The CMC has disallowed all non-essential travel. “People shouldn’t come out of their homes if it is not urgent. In case of necessity, they must produce sufficient proof and reason before the enforcement teams,” the CMC said. Police personnel have been deployed at vantage points in Cuttack and all entry and exit points in the city have been sealed, said an officer.
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) brought Nuagaon village that is under its jurisdiction under containment. The area coming within the boundary of revenue village Nuagaon near Samantrapur also comes under containment. “No resident will be allowed to come out during the containment period,” the BMC order said.
Currently, there are two containment zones in the city – Laxmi Bazar basti and Nuagaon – besides an apartment that is under the control of Khurda district administration. Containment zone status has been lifted from Subash Nagar slum.
On Saturday, the capital city reported 45 Covid-19 positive cases out of which 37 were in quarantine and eight are local contact cases. Satyanagar locality, which was under containment in April reported one positive case. Five new localities have reported cases.
The city saw 31 patients recovering on Saturday taking the total number of recoveries to 247. With 45 new cases, the capital city’s total touched 414. There are 161 active cases with six deaths and 247 recoveries. In the last four days since July 1, the city has added 94 Covid-19 positive cases.
On Saturday, BMC commissioner Prem Chansdra Chaudhury led a Covid awareness programme and sensitized senior citizens to download Sachetak App, which will help monitor health of people having comorbid conditions.
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Bhubaneswar has 414 poitive cases and Cuttack 116
There are currently 161 active cases in Bhubaneswar and 92 in Cuttack
Bhubaneswar reported 45 fresh cases and Cuttack 11 on Saturday