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Authorities in many state governments including that of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh have decided to seal COVID19 hot spots in absolute curfew like scenario from midnight 08 April 2020 itself, thereby advancing the date by a week of a similar plan envisaged earlier.

According to the earlier plan, sealing of such hot spots and additional 28-day lockdown was planned from 15 April 2020 onwards.

One of the reasons that has forced Delhi and UP governments to immediately implement the sealing procedure is emergence of virus cases due to alleged uncivil behavior by followers of Tablighi Jamaat, the preaching community of Islam.

List of Covid-19 hot spots to be sealed in Delhi.

1. Entire effected street near Gandhi Park, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi
2. Entire effected street of Gali No 6 , L1 Sangam Vihar, New Delhi
3. Shahajahanabad society, Plot No 1, Sector 11, Dwarka
4. Dinpur Village
5. Markaz and Nizamuddin Basti
6. Nizamuddin West (G and D block) areas
7. B Block Jhangirpuri
8. H No 141 to H No 180, Gali No 14, Kalyanpuri Delhi
9. Mansara Appartments, Vasundhara Enclave, Delhi
10. 3 streets of Khichirpur, Delhi
11. Gali No 9, Pandav Nagar, Delhi 110092.
12. Vardhaman Appartments, Mayur Vihar, Phase I, Extension, Delhi
13. Mayurdhwaj Appartments, IP Extension, Patparganj, Delhi
14. Gali No 4, from H. No. J- 3/115 (Nagar Dairy) to H. No. J- 3/108 (towards Anar wali Masjid Chowk), Kishan Kunj Extension, Delhi
15. Gali No 4, from H No J-3/101 to H No. J-3/107 Krishan Kunj Extension Delhi
16. Gali No 5, A Block (From H No. A- 176 to A-189), West Vinod Nagar, Delhi 110092
17. J, K,L & H Pockets, Dilshad Garden
18. G, H, J, Blocks, old Seemapuri
19. F-70 to 90, Dilshad Colony
20. Pratap Khand, Jhilmil Colony

(Delhi Government authorities stated that many new areas could be added to the list.) 

List of Covid-19 hot spots sealed in Noida

1) Sector 41
2) Hyde Park, Sector 78 and Supertech Capetown Sector 74
3) Lotus Boulevard, Sector 100
4) Alpha-1 Greater Noida
5) Nirala Green Shire Sector 2, Greater Noida and Patwari village
6) Logix Blossom County and Paras Tierra in Sector 137 and Wazidpur
7) ATS Dolce Zeta-1 Greater Noida
8) Ace Golf Shire, Sector 150
9) Sector 27 and 28
10) Omicron-3, Sector 3, Greater Noida
11) Mehak Residency, Achega, Greater Noida
12) Jay Pee Wish Town, Sector 128
13) Sector 44
14) Village Vishnoi, Dadri
15) Sector 37
16) Village Ghodi Bacheda
17) Stellar Mi Omicrom 3, Greater Noida
18) Palm Olympia, Gaur City-2, Greater Noida West
19) Sector 22, Chauda Village
20) Grand Omaxe, Sector 93B
21) Sector 5 and 8, JJ colony
22) Designer Park, Sector 62

The above NOIDA list contains locations of CronaVirus active cases found in 10 epicenters spread over 12 clusters zones.

In all the 34 localities have been covered in the current phase of sealing exercise by District Magistrate of Gautam Budh Nagar (otherwise known as NOIDA).

Last weekend, the Central Government had released blue book on COVID19, a ready reckoner for all agencies to implement sealing or any such operations to contain the spread of CoronaVirus.

On Wednesday, senior officials from the Union Health Ministry stated that decision to advance the implementation of ‘Containment Zones’ and Buffer Zones’ is strictly going by the 20 page document.

To begin with in Uttar Pradesh, sealing of 104 hot spots in 15 districts have been announced including many localities in state capital Lucknow.

“There is an emergent and urgent need to capture the spread of virus within the confines of these zones”, said Health Ministry officials.

The “Containment Plan for Large Outbreaks COVID19”, Ministry of Health has defined what is a Geographic Quarantine (GQ) and what does a ‘cluster containment strategy’ means;

The COVID29 blue book says  – Geographic quarantine (cordon sanitaire) strategy calls for near absolute interruption of movement of people to and from a relatively large defined geographic area where there is single large outbreak or multiple foci of local transmission of COVID-19.

In simple terms, it is a barrier erected around the focus of infection.

Geographic quarantine shall be applicable to such areas reporting large outbreak and/or multiple clusters of COVID-19 spread over multiple blocks of one or more districts that are contiguous.

And Cluster Containment Strategy, according to COVID19 blue book means;

The Cluster Containment Strategy would be to contain the disease within a defined geographic area by early detection of cases, breaking the chain of transmission and thus preventing its spread to new areas. This would include geographic quarantine, social distancing measures, enhanced active surveillance, testing all suspected cases, isolation of cases, quarantine of contacts and risk communication to create awareness among public on preventive public health measures.