Kolkata: Starting this Friday, Dum Dum South Municipality has decided to keep all markets and independent stores in the area closed for three weeks on Monday, Wednesday and Friday to July 14 except for drugs and sweet shops as a measure of detention.
In other urban areas in 24 South Parganas, 24 Pargana and Howrah, market closure can be expanded with reliefs intermittent as the market closure has begun to show results.
At 24 South Parganas, 15 markets at Sonarpur-Rajpur Municipality are currently closed.
The city will review the shutdown effect on July 1.
Shutdown may be extended with intermittent relief, said Sonarpur-Rajpur city officials.
Likewise, almost more than a dozen markets in the city of Howrah are closed.
“We will review the situation to decide whether such detention steps need to be extended or not,” said Arup Roy, Administration of Howrah Municipality.
The number of people who are positive Covid in the Dum Dum Selatan area has dropped dramatically in recent weeks, but the authority of the citizenship does not want to take things lightly and continue with strict steps to prevent further deployment.
Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum Southern (BoA) board member Debashis Banerjee said that all Covid prevention measures needed were being taken.
On the northern suburbs of the city, the market in Khardah, Kamarhati, Madhyamgram, Dum North Dum, Panihati and Taki Municipalities are completely closed until Thursday.
“On Friday, we will receive a call whether there are extensions needed or not,” said a Khardah municipal official.
All cities on the outskirts of the city are warned by the Department of City Affairs to keep the body clean water to prevent dengue fever and malaria.
South Dum Dum authorities on Tuesday launched a scheme to use a speed boat on all four of his channels that flow in the jurisdiction area to spray Larviside and keep the canal water clean as a step of dengue prevention.
“The vessels have been introduced following the instructions of the Minister of Bratya Basu to spray Larviside and maintain a clean canal to prevent mosquito breeding.
This will continue for the next six months this year as a preventative measure of dengue fever,” Banerjee said.
(With input from Sanjib Chakraborty, Monotosh Chakraborty & Rupak Banerjee)