This story is from May 13, 2020

Blocked Bailey Road may reopen soon

Blocked Bailey Road may reopen soon
PATNA: With the Covid-19 situation improving in the Khajpura locality as five more people expected to be discharged on Wednesday, the district administration is gearing up to open the blocked portion of the arterial Bailey Road.
According to Patna DM Kumar Ravi, a decision on the opening of Bailey Road will be taken soon as the situation was improving. Commuters are as of now not allowed to move towards Jagdeo Path on Bailey Road and have to take flyover before Sheikhpura.
“The situation has improved to a great extent and we are reviewing opening of Bailey Road.
Almost all patients from Khajpura have recovered, which is a very good news,” Ravi. Most of the positive cases in Patna are from Khajpura locality with 22 people testing positive for Covid-19, followed by BMP campus where 14 personnel, including one retired jawan, had tested positive for coronavirus. Of the 22 Khajpura patients, 20 have already recovered and the rest two also on way to recovery.
“Khajpura has the maximum cases, but good news is that people have recovered. Hence we will give some relaxation and make Bailey Road accessible for commuters. Only the lane where people lived behind Shiv Mandir Gali will be closed for next 14 days.”
Ravi further said other localities had individual cases so tackling them was not difficult. As on Tuesday evening, 73 people had tested positive for Covid-19 in Patna district, 38 of them have recovered and have been sent back home and five are expected to be sent home on Wednesday.
One Covid-19 positive person died on May 10 and now total number of active cases in Patna stands at 30. There are now 15 containment zones in Patna. Initially, when Covid-19 cases started reporting in March, Patna had five containment zones. In April, the number of containment zones reached 12 and then to 16 on May 10. However, two places were removed from the list of containment zones recently and one BMP campus has been added to it.
As per the information shared by district administration, there are 46 quarantine centres in Patna with 3,019 people staying in it. District magistrate Kumar Ravi has also instructed officials to speed up development work in rural areas and provide job opportunities to labourers.
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