Bengaluru(Karnataka):City civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has declared 19 wards as COVID containment zones, setting off a range of restrictions and activities aimed at preventing the community spread of the pandemic, an official said on Monday.
"In exercise of powers conferred under Section 24 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, containment zones are to be identified in view of COVID positive cases and aggregation of epidemiologically linked COVID cases in a limited area to prevent the further spread," said BBMP Commissioner B H Anil Kumar in an order.
The civic body has identified the residences of COVID positive cases ward-wise through a house-to-house survey for crisis management, special health needs, perimeter control, surveillance and preventive measures, solid waste management, providing essentials and others.
As part of identifying positive cases, places containing infected people from independent houses have been identified as A, apartments, AP and multiple cases have been identified as clusters.
Several upscale apartments are featured in the containment zones.
Aimed at containing the virus from spreading, 100 metres radius around a positive case premise for independent houses has been declared as containment zone limits.