After completely sealing a part of Sector 30 B and Kacchi colony, Dhanas in Chandigarh, the UT Administration on Wednesday issued orders declaring both the areas as “affected pockets” to stem the spread of coronavirus.
“Around 1100 households live in Kacchi Colony, Dhanas and 590 families live in a part of Sector 30 B, that have been sealed. These two places have been identified as areas, which has witnessed an outbreak of Coronavirus and thus have been sealed, said a senior UT officer.
“The Administration have completely sealed a part of Sector 30 B and Kacchi Colony, Dhanas till May 3 to contain the spread of Coronavirus,” the officer said.
A total of five positive cases have been reported from these affected areas, he said.
A day before, the Punjab Governor and UT Administrator VP Singh Bandore had directed the UT officers to ensure supply of essential items in the affected pockets.
Chandigarh was declared a Covid-19 hotspot by Central Government on April 15 following which the UT Administration had declared the entire city as “containment zone” to contain the spread of Coronavirus.
As per the order issued by Administration, “movement of the inhabitants of affected pockets shall be absolutely restricted and the entire affected pocket will be sealed by deployment of adequate police force and setting up of required number of nakas etc. There shall be only single exit and entry for the affected pocket. There shall be total ban on non-essential visitors in the area. Only duty authorized essential items or service providers, wearing necessary protection gears and carrying passes, valid ID cards will be allowed entry in affected areas.”
“Sufficient teams will be deployed to conduct door to door screening of each and every person of the entire households falling in the affected pockets. The entire affected pocket will be sanitized. Gates, knobs of doors of every household will be properly sanitized,” the order stated.
“Rajesh Aggarwal, SDE cum Special Executive magistrate is deputed as a incident commander for Kachhi Colony Dhanas and Sector 30 B for maintenance of law and order,” it stated.
“The SDM east and SDM central would be overall incharge of the concerned affected pockets and oversee all the arrangements,” the order further added.