New Delhi: Even when Delhi recorded the highest single-day surge in the Covid-19 case on Thursday, the number of detention zones in the city also spinned to 23,997.
There are only 1,243 zones like that in January, so the number has risen more than 17 times in just 13 days.
While the highest number of red zones is in South Delhi for more than a month, more closed zones are now reported from the Central Delhi area such as Karol Bagh, Rajinder Nagar and Pahargaj.
Although the South Delhi area such as Vasant Kunj, Vasant Vihar and Greater Kailash still have more areas contained, it is a central district which currently has the highest number of detention zones – 2,690 – followed by the West (1,481) and South (1,481) district.
The number of active cases in the national capital reached 94,160 on Thursday, close to all time highs from 99,361 active cases on April 30, when the number of detention zones was 37,223.
Even though these numbers are similar to those who during the wave of the second infection that destroyed last year, the detention strategy had actually changed since then.
Guidelines and protocols regarding Cordoned regions, in fact, are widely changed with those who apply when the first detention zone appeared in March 2020.
At that time, it was unusual for the whole path to drawn and hallways forbidden to everyone.
The norms also mandated that the detention zone could only be notified 28 days after the last confirmed Covid case.
To facilitate the problem faced by residents because of the prolonged zone isolation period, the Ministry of Health Union suggested in the mid 2020 which stated that the zone was closed 14 days after the last confirmed case disposal.
The strategy returned to tweaked to make a micro detention zone, where instead of the entire track, only one house or several flats shared a general corridor in a sealed building.
In a solid area in particular, a very small location was also rejected as a red zone.
In 2021, the strategy changed further with the overall focus on the ‘cluster’ which had the micro detention zone.
“Every day, ‘Cluster Analysis’ of all new cases is done because the ‘cluster control’ is very important for the detention of disease,” explained a Delhi government official.
The decision to notify an area as a detention zone is based on the assessment of district medical officers, district judges and district supervision officers.
Government officials said that the minimum detention period was 21 days, where the first seven days were closely monitored by civil defense volunteers to prevent Covid’s positive individuals from leaving the area.
This was then increased and finally marked as the area contained.
“The detention zone is made in any location that has two or more cases and clusters are closed,” the official said.
“Perimeter control is strictly maintained and the sho area is immediately informed.
Close watches are also stored in public facilities from which things everyday needs are sourced.
Treatment is taken to see that those in the detention zone do not feel the need to come out.” While Central, West and South Regency has the highest number of highest detention zones, northeast and eastern districts only have 255 and 110 areas sealed.
The northeastern district, in fact, does not have a detention zone for the last 20 days or more.