Ahmedabad: With Covid cases rising steadily in the city that strengthened the fear of the third wave, a society in Isanpur had been included in the micro detention zone – the first after a six-month gap.
After stopping practices in the last week of May, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation brought back the practice of establishing a micro detention zone on Thursday because Gujarat and Ahmedabad marked the trend of increasing in each case with 40 and 14 cases.
The new micro detention zone contains as many as 20 houses with 85 residents, all in one block of five-story apartments.
“One or two family members from each floor have tested a positive covid so we have decided to declare a block as a micro detention zone.
We have also decided to continue the practice of announcing the micro detention zone when we go further,” AMC official said.
The official said that the practice of declaring a micro detention zone was stopped in May when positive cases in the city have begun to show a decline after peaking in April.
The city has recorded the peak in the number of Covid cases in April.
On April 25, the city has recorded 5,790 Covid cases – the highest.
It has dropped to 803 positive cases on May 21.
After that AMC stopped announcing the micro detention zone.
The Civic’s body has decided to continue the micro-containing micro when the number of positive cases of the city reaches 14 on Thursday.
Covid case analysis registered between November 1 and 9 revealed that Gujarat recorded an average of 23 cases every day which led to a total of 207 cases.
It’s a shot of up to 41 in the last two days, almost doubling it.
The rate of incorporating test (TPR) on Thursday reached 0.07%, meaning that 7 at every 10,000 people were tested turned out to be positive.
In the state, out of the total Covid case, 27 or slightly more than two-thirds of the case is recorded from the city corporation area.
New cases include 14 of the city of Ahmedabad, 6 from the city of Vadodara, 4 from the city of Letters, 3 each of Rajkot City and Letters, 2 of each of Junagadh and Valsad, and 1 of each of the Somnath Gir, Kheda, Morbi, Navsari and Surendranagar.
Of the 20th in early November, the number of districts with zero active cases was reduced to 12.
With debit 21 patients, the state added 19 active cases, taking a total of 234, the highest active case in the last three months.
With 62 active cases, Ahmedabad surpassed Vadodara (54) and Valsad (32).
The country recorded the vaccination of 4.57 lakh people, took a total to 7.33 crores.