Amaravati, Apr 10 (): The Andhra Pradesh governmenton Friday identified 133 'containment clusters' in 11districts of the state and sounded a red alert to contain thespread of coronavirus.
The state nodal officer for COVID-19 Arja Srikanthsaid in a release that the government was taking all steps tocheck the spread of the pandemic by tightening the lockdownrestrictions.
"Creating awareness among people on public health,maintaining physical distance, testing every suspect cases,keeping the contacts in isolation to prevent communitytransmission are some of the key steps we are taking in thecontainment clusters.
Except for emergency medical and government services,movement of people will be totally restricted in theseclusters," Srikanth said.
In urban areas, a 3-km area from where a coronaviruspositive case was detected would be treated as a containmentcluster and a 5-km area as buffer zone.
In rural areas, the buffer zone would extend to sevenkilometres, the nodal officer added.
Thermal screening would be done at all the entry andexit points to the containment cluster and movement of allvehicles, including public transport, would be fullyprohibited.
"We will list out and trace all the contacts of Coronapositive patients within 12 hours and ANMs and Asha workerswill maintain a strict surveillance on them," the nodalofficer said.
SPS Nellore district, which has 48 COVID-19 cases, hasthe highest number of 30 containment clusters in the state.
Kurnool has 22 and Krishna 16 clusters whileSrikakulam and Vizianagaram, which have so far remainedcoronavirus-free, have no such red zones. DBV SS