Thiruvananthapuram: Six additional panchayats were announced as crucial containment zones on the district on Monday.
Test positivity levels (TPR) in those panchayats are over 25%.
Athiyannur, Cherunniyur, Kadakkavoor, Manamboor, Panavoor, Perunkadavila, Pothencode, Vamanapuram,Vellarad, Vilappil panchayats have been announced as crucial containment zones on Monday.
Previously, Azhoor, Edava, Kadinamkulam, Kalliyoor, Karode, Kizhuvilam, Ottasekharamangalam, Venganoor, Vettoor, Anchuthengu, Balaramapuram, Kulathur, Poovar, Chemmaruthi, Ottur, Aryancode, Kanjiramkulam, Pallichal, Kollayil along with Chenkal panchayats were announced as crucial containment zones.
A couple of panchayats in which TPR went under 25 percent were denotified as crucial containment zones.
These panchayats comprise Anadu, Aruvikkara, Kottukal, Nagaroor, Vilavoorkal, Karumkulam, Uzhamalakkal, Malayinkeezhu and Madavoor.
Even the ministers’ level assembly held on Monday stressed that the necessity to intensify testing in the panchayat level.
Ward-level information collection and isolation steps will be shrouded in panchayats.
The ministers stated that the panchayat committees must organize preventative actions and there ought to be a district-level inspection on each basis.
Transportation ministry Antony Raju explained that Covid first-line therapy centers shall be used in panchayats in which TPR is quite high.
As numerous as 1,170 individuals were infected with Covid-19 on Monday and also 2,289 individuals recovered by the disease.
The district also has 12,395 men under therapy.
Of the total, 1,059 men were infected through contact, six one of them being medical employees.
On Monday, 2,483 men were attracted under disease surveillance at the district, taking the complete amount to 53,444.