Three containment zones set up in East Singhbhum

Jamshedpur: The East Singhbhum deputy commissioner, Ravi Shankar Shukla, on Monday marked three areas in Baridih and Sidhgora here as containment zones as the district reported 24 Covid-19 cases on Sunday — 16 from Jamshedpur, six from Govindpur and two from Chakulia.

“Following the sealing of all the areas in the three containment zones, over 400 people living in these zones will have to go for a health check-up and every house will be surveyed for contact tracing and travel history of the residents,” said a district official.

He added, “All the residents in the three containment zones have to download the Aarogya Setu app in their cell phones.”

In Lohia Path in Baridih basti, which falls under Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee area, the containment zone’s two boundaries are from one Narendra Kumar Singh’s house to one Vijay Singh’s house and from one Satyanarayan Mahato’s house to one Sanjay Tantuvai’s home respectively. There’s a buffer zone on either side of the containment zone along the Main Road and the two boundary points are from one Ganesh Gorai’s house to one Kamlesh Gupta’s house and from one Sanjay Singh’s house to one Ram Singh’s house respectively, the notification issued by the deputy commissioner read.

Likewise in Sidhgora, a residential area of Tata Steel employees, the containment zone’s boundary has been specified from X type quarter number 12 to quarter number 3. The buffer zone’s two boundaries are from quarter number 18 to quarter number 1 and quarter 1 to quarter number 9 respectively.

The third containment zone is Sidhgora JAP-6 residential area and the buffer zone here has been specified from quarter number 7 to quarter number 81 and from Surya Mandir Road to the boundary wall of GIIT Professional College.

Earlier, Govindpur, situated on the outskirts of Jamshedpur, had been put under the containment zone while containment measures have also been imposed in Chakulia under Ghtashila subdivison.