This story is from April 21, 2020

Now, 17 areas of Kanpur included in hotspot list

With 17 new corona positive cases reported in the city on Monday, the district administration has enhanced the number of hotspots and now their number stands at 17. The new hotspot areas are Jajmau, Tikunia Park and some areas of Gwaltoli.
Now, 17 areas of Kanpur included in hotspot list
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KANPUR: With 17 new corona positive cases reported in the city on Monday, the district administration has enhanced the number of hotspots and now their number stands at 17. The new hotspot areas are Jajmau, Tikunia Park and some areas of Gwaltoli.
District magistrate Brahmadeo Ram Tiwari and SSP/DIG Anant Deo on Monday inspected hotspot areas in Jajmau, Kidwai Nagar, Chamanganj, Beconganj police circles.

The DM on Monday chalked out contact tracing policy and ordered tracing and sample collection from first-and contacts and second-hand contacts of suspected cases. He said that rapid testing too had commenced on Monday and efforts were being made to trace and track all suspected persons and provide them medical help.
The district administration and police administration has divided the corona affected areas of the city in three categories. The red zones are police station jurisdiction wise. There were seven red zones and now they are nine. Two more red zones are Kidwai Nagar and Jajmau.
Deo said that Kidwai Nagar and Jajmau were included in hotspot list when corona positive cases were found there. Ganga Apartment of Kidwai Nagar, Asharfabad Madrassa in Jajmau and Tikunia Park in Colonelganj were new hotspot areas. Similarly, one case had been detected in Barafkhana. Therefore, adjacent area of Humayun Mosque had been declared hotspot.
The movement in these new areas had been totally locked down. The district administration will enforce door-to-door delivery like other hotspots. Licenses for shops and passes for vehicles which were issued earlier in these areas had been cancelled. The area which comes under 2 kms radius from hotspot would be buffer zone. Thus around 20 percent area of the city had been sealed and police would take stringent steps to check movement.

Meanwhile, the police department had prepared a list of around 1,500 to 2,000 suspected persons on the basis of travel history of corona positive cases. A list of around 500 suspected persons had been transferred to health department, he added.
The SSP/DIG said just to take preventive measures, district administration has decided to sent samples to Jhansi and Lucknow too so that sample test report could be obtained at the earliest.
Meanwhile, SSP/DIG disclosed that 40-year-old corona positive person who had died a few days ago may have infected around 200 persons before his death. His travel history had revealed that a chain of around 200 persons was in touch with him.
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