With five new COVID-19 cases being reported from two civic wards of Bengaluru, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has sealed two adjacent civic wards in the city—Bapuji Nagara and Padarayanpura—on Friday. The ‘seal-down’ of the two wards will be in place for the next 15 days. While the state has reported 207 cases of coronavirus, Bengaluru Urban district alone has 68 cases.
The BBMP has formed 160 teams to impose the ‘seal-down’.
"The two wards, 134 and 135, will be sealed down and unlike a lockdown, the seal-down will bar people coming out of their houses and the movement of people will be totally banned. All essential commodities will be delivered to one's doorstep,” said BBMP Commissioner B. H. Anil Kumar.
The civic authorities arrived with the police force and health workers and sealed all entry points to these localities. While the civic teams will conduct a survey of the localities to ascertain the number of households and the population to plan distribution of essential commodities, the health workers will carry out door-to-door survey to screen the residents for COVID-19.
"Three persons from this locality have tested positive. They had visited Nizamuddin in Delhi and also Ajmer Dargah. After we appealed to people through mosques and churches to show up for tests, they voluntarily came forward to get tested. They will be shifted to a lodge for quarantine. The possible contacts, mostly the family members and neighbours, will also be quarantined. We have to seal down the area as a precaution," says Chamarajpet MLA Zameer Ahmed Khan.
Khan also urged people with a travel history to Nizamuddin to show up at the earliest to get themselves tested and to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
