GURUGRAM: A day after the city received 12 new Covid-19 positive cases, the district administration on Thursday declared nine containment zones in

. These include Raipur village in Sohna, Sector-9, Nirvana Country in Sector-54, Palam Vihar, Emar Palm Gardens in Sector-83, Laburnum society in Sushant Lok-1, Sector-39, village Fazilpur, Jharsa and Ward no.11 Pataudi.

But a further clarification will be issued on the containment order tomorrow. The intent is to minimize the spread of Covid-19 without causing much trouble to the common people, hence there will be a list of exclusions permitting certain essential activities and so on.

At present, Gurugram has 30 Covid-19 positive cases (excluding the 14 Italians who were admitted to Medanta hospital). The 12 cases that came into light on Wednesday had attended the Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi’s Nizamuddin last month. The number of such cases in the district is now 15.

These nine areas where corona positive cases have been found are included in the

. Under this, 3km radius of the house, where the positive case is found is considered as the epicentre and adjoining areas are declared as buffer zones.

In the light of new cases emerging from Pataudi, Fazilpur and Raipur in the district, a containment plan is being implemented for these places too. Deputy commissioner, Gurugram, Amit Khatri said that wherever a positive case of

contraction has been found, a team of surveyors visits each house falling within the radius of 3km of that house to ascertain if anyone is having symptoms of fever or cough, etc. If someone has the symptoms, a sample is taken for testing.

He said that after the recent positive cases found in the village Raipur near Sohna, now a containment plan is being prepared for that village, in which almost the entire village will fall under this plan per the rules.

He informed that door-to-door survey is carried out in the containment area by a team consisting of ANM, ASHA workers and Anganwadi workers. The four teams will be monitored by a doctor as a supervisory head and a senior medical officer has been appointed to supervise over four doctors.

According to the deputy commissioner, door-to-door survey has been completed in most containment areas as per the plan. In Pataudi, two positive cases were found, after which the entire area was declared as a containment zone and the house survey work is in a completion stage.

Similarly, after a corona suspected patient died in Fazilpur village on Wednesday, the containment plan for the entire village has been started.

According to the official, the person who died was addicted to hookah and his son is also accustomed to playing cards, so a very extensive sampling has been done in the village. An additional 57 samples have been taken by the team of doctors, apart from the family members.

As soon as positive cases of infection started coming up in Gurugram district, this micro-planning was done by deputy commissioner Amit Khatri to prevent the corona epidemic from spreading.

In addition, the district has 39 duty magistrates have been appointed to ensure lock-down compliance.

He informed that a disinfectant tunnel has been made for the patients coming to the civil hospital and in collaboration with the Municipal Corporation Gurugram for the doctors and paramedical staff, in which the person is sprayed with sanitized spray to kill the germs.

In containment zones it is advised to conduct screening of suspected cases as well as testing to identify the carrier of corona virus. The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram will sanitize the areas which are under containment zones. Movement of people within the containment zones are restricted and these areas will be sealed by deploying police force on all exit and entry points. The containment zones will be barricaded properly to avoid the spread of virus.

Haryana roadways buses will be deployed which will carry the health department staff to survey door-to-door in the containment zones. MCG will prepare a plan to ensure that people living in these containment zones get their daily essential goods on their door steps. There will be separate packets of vegetables, grocery items and milk which will be delivered by an official wearing personal protective equipment. Regular power supply, water and availability of ambulance shall be ensured by the respective departments.