Majority of the patients who are being diagnosed with Covid belong to areas which are outside the Walled City. In the first wave, Areas such as Ramganj, Ghat Gate, Bhrampuri, Subhash Chowk, Manak Chowk and adjacent locations such as Shastri Nagar, MD Road and MI Road were the worst hit, but this time around, areas which are far away from the old city are reporting increasing number of cases.
Areas such as Malviya Nagar, Vaishali Nagar, Jhotwara, Sodala, Vidhyadhar Nagar, Pratap Nagar, Jagatpura, Mansarovar, Jawahar Nagar, Tonk Road, Bani Park and Adarsh Nagar are continuously reporting more than 50% of the daily new infections. Health department’s teams are busy in conducting contact tracing in the areas.
“Earlier, Ramganj and other adjacent areas of the Walled City were worst-affected and a containment zone was created covering almost the whole Walled City. With the help of police, JMC and other departments, measures were taken to contain the spread ofthe virus and it took almost three months to bring the situation under control. Amid the second wave, cases are being reported from other areas which are outside the Walled City,” said a senior health department official.
Till August last year, 23 people had died of Covid in Ramganj only while 5,157 were placed in institutional quarantine and more than 1 lakh isolated themselves at home.
In the second wave, the virus has infected more people from outside the Walled City. “Carelessness while attending marriages, traveling in local transport without wearing masks and flouting guidelines has increased number of cases in several areas of the city,” said the official.
