Kolkata: Twenty-five city addresses, six in Salt Lake, three in New Town and six in Lake Town were declared as micro-containment zones on Monday. On the Kolkata micro-containment list, barring two slums in Phoolbagan, the rest are complexes, a few standalone flats and even hostels inside the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
Ten major housing complexes in the city have found a place on the list. A portion of Silver Spring on EM Bypass, Active Acres complex at Tangra and Urbana have been included in this list. Several standalone properties — in the heart of the city like Loudon Street, Short Street and Shakespeare Sarani — are on the list. At least seven such properties have been identified at Loudon Street.
At Urbana, which has 34 Covid-positive cases at present, including an Omicron patient who had returned from Nigeria last month, the facility management authorities rang multiple civic officials and local police personnel to know the exact norms they needed to follow. “We have been told to mostly rely on self-compliance and ensure family members of Covid positive patients in the complex remain in isolation. There will be no bar on entry and exit of residents and staff,” said Debjani Mukherjee, director of Urbana Facility Management.
At Silver Spring, the association representatives called up the local police station to seek clarity. “As we still look for more clarity on the containment zone norms, we are trying to keep some of our maintenance and housekeeping staff stay back in the complex and are in talks to introduce some of the self-regulatory Covid norms,” said Indranil Chowdhury, the complex secretary.
Mayor Firhad Hakim said standalone flats will be micro-containment zones and a few complexes and slums with multiple cases will be treated as containment zones. “Usually, cops barricade the containment zones. While this will not be applicable for micro-containment zones, we will ask associations to ensure that those affected are monitored. Those not infected can come out but in a restricted manner. We hope these measures will help us reverse the numbers by January 10-15,” said Hakim.
The North 24 Parganas district administration on Monday came up with the micro-containment zone list for the district, mostly in the urban areas, with a total of 41 zones. Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation tops with 12 zones, followed by Panihati Municipality with eight and South Dum Dum and Baranagar municipalities with six zones each.
In Salt Lake, there are six micro-containment zones — two at FD Block, one at GD Block, five houses on the same lane in CD Block and two houses in AK Block.
In New Town, a flat in Uniworld City housing complex, a flat in Akanksha cooperative society and a flat at Sapoorji housing complex in Action Area III are now micro-containment zones. The six zones under South Dum Dum Municipality are in Lake Town, Dakshindari, Golaghata and Bangur Avenue areas.
(With inputs from Saikat Ray and Tamaghna
Banerjee)
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/25-micro-c-zones-in-city-6-in-salt-lake-3-in-new-town/articleshow/88676245.cms
