The Kolkata Police on Monday put up on its twitter account the list of 338 containment zones in the city. The list was accessed by the police from Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s source. Bengal at present has four red zones including Kolkata, neighbouring Howrah,North 24 Parganas and Purba Medinipur districts. There are 11 districts come under orange zone and eight are in green zone. According to the list of district-wise containment zones put up by the ‘Egiye Bangla’ website of the West Bengal government, Howrah has 76 such areas, while North Parganas has 92. In Hooghly, there are 23 containment zones while in Purba Medinipur there are three such zones.
The cases of COVID-19 climbed to 113 in West Bengal on Sunday with 14 more people succumbing to the pandemic within the last 24 hours. Among the deaths, Kolkata has alone accounted for 10 while two each were from North 24 Parganas and Howrah districts. The highest number of fresh COVID-19 cases was reported in Hooghly district (47) while 18 people from Kolkata tested positive for novel coronavirus.
A total of 1,939 COVID-19 cases are reported in West Bengal thus far , of which 1,337 are active.