Bhopal has more containment zones than ever
   Date :24-Jul-2020

Bhopal containment zones
 
 
Staff Reporter :
 
As COVID-19 cases spurt in Bhopal, the district administration has barricaded the houses of COVID-19 patients and declared the area as containment zone, as per the protocols. Presently, Bhopal has nearly 1,522 active cases of corona virus and more than 270 containment zones across the entire city. Administration has imposed the Cluster Containment Strategy to restrict the movement of citizens at those places where positive corona cases are found.
 
The Cluster Containment Strategy would be to contain the disease within a defined geographic area by early detection of cases, breaking the change of transmission and thus preventing its spread to new areas. The strategy builds on the experience from the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, with that virus affecting bigger cities and well-connected towns much more than rural areas.
 
Earlier, there was also a buffer zone outside the containment zone but was later removed by the then Health Minister Narottam Mishra. Dr Mishra had changed the protocols of the containment zones, earlier the zone was a kilometre wide but now it has been restricted to only three adjacent houses of the epicentre.