With Covid-19 cases being reported from different areas, the statewill now be divided into three zones based on their vulnerability.
The state government has decided to divide the state into three zones — Red, Yellow and Green — as part of a strategy to deal with the Covid19 pandemic.
The government is likely to declare the three zones based on the health assessment and proximity to areas where maximum Covid-19 cases have been reported without any apparent travel history of patients.
Officials suggested that in order to revive economic activity, the nation had to be divided into three zones. The red zone would be the one with the most number of coronavirus cases and these zones would remain locked down. In the yellow zone, where the limited number of cases are reported, activity would resume, but the movement would be heavily monitored. In the green zones, where no coronavirus activity is reported, the officials suggested that normalcy should return.
Lockdown in India could be extended by two weeks post-April 14, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a meeting with state Chief Ministers today, amid rising cases of the coronavirus.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said there seems to be a consensus amongst states on extending by another two weeks the ongoing nationwide lockdown, which began on March 25 and was to end on April 14.
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has called an all-party meeting at Assam Administrative Staff College, Guwahati on April 12 to discuss the situation arising out of the coronavirus.
In the meeting, the CM Sonowal will seek suggestions from different parties on the future road map to contain the deadly virus. The meeting will start at 11 am with CM's opening remarks in which he will appraise the party leaders of the steps his government has taken so far.
Many opposition leaders have been asking for an all-party meeting with the Chief Minister on the pandemic that has shown far-reaching and devastating effects on different sections of the society and especially the country's economy.
