Tribune News Service
Lucknow, April 5
6 pockets in Kanpur declared ‘red zones’
- Kanpur: Six pockets in Kanpur district have been declared ‘red zones’ after six Tablighi Jamaat members, including two foreign nationals, who attended a congregation in Delhi and visited a number of places here, tested positive for coronavirus, officials said on Sunday. PTI
Curfew has been imposed in parts of Varanasi following the death of the state’s third Covid-19 positive case detected posthumously and discovery of another positive case on Sunday.
Confirming this, Varanasi District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said curfew had been imposed in Madanpura, Lohta, Gangapur and Bajardiha areas after Covid-19 positive patients were found.
A 55-year-old shopkeeper from Gangapur died at Banaras Hindu University’s Sir Sunderlal Hospital on April 3 while his report confirming his disease came a day later on April 4. He was a patient of high blood pressure and diabetes.
He had visited Kolkata, following which he fell ill on March 27 and was admitted to the hospital.
The first death in Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College hospital of a 25-year-old Basti resident last Sunday was also confirmed after his death.
A woman resident of Varanasi’s Bajardiha area who had returned from Saudia Arabia on March 15 also tested positive on Sunday after which all these localities have been sealed.
Lucknow Cantonment next to the Sadar Bazaar area has been cordoned off barring even soldiers after 12 persons living in a mosque in Sadar Bazaar tested positive. They had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi last month.
According to Lucknow Police Commissioner Sujit Pandey, as soon as they received the news of the 12 positive cases, the area was turned into a sterile zone to prevent the virus spread.
Only military medical teams, quick response teams, emergency MES services and essential services would be allowed, said chowki incharge of Lucknow Cantonment PK Gupta.
Additional chief secretary Avanish Awasthi said of the 1,499 people who had been identified in UP for attending Delhi’s Tablighi Jamaat meeting around 138 have tested positive so far.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath interacted through video-conferencing with the state’s elected representatives and 377 religious leaders from all districts of the state asking them for suggestions on how to prevent crowding once the lockdown is removed on April 15.