80 districts under complete
lockdown due to Covid-19
The
Centre and several state governments announced on Sunday a complete lockdown in
80 districts nationwide, to control the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19), which
has infected nearly 370 people in the country.
Here's a
district-wise look at the areas which will be shut down to abort the threat of
community transmission.
Seventy-five
districts across 22 states and Union Territories where positive coronavirus
cases have been reported will be under a complete lockdown till March 31.
Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced a total lockdown of the national capital
until March 31 in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. In Delhi, the districts
under lockdown will include Central Delhi, North Delhi, East Delhi, North West
Delhi, North East Delhi, South Delhi and West Delhi.
In Haryana,
Faridabad, Sonepat, Panchkula, Panipat and Gurugram will be shut.
Andhra Pradesh
has put the districts of Prakasam, Vijaywada and Vizag under total lockdown.
In
Maharashtra, which has reported the highest number of coronavirus cases among
the states, Ahmednagar, Aurangabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, Mumbai Surburban, Pune,
Ratnagiri, Raigarh and Thane will be under a lockdown.
Rajasthan has
ordered a lockdown for the districts of Bhilwara, Jhunjhunu, Sikar, and Jaipur
Tamil Nadu has
ordered a lockdown for Chennai, Erode and Kanchipuram.
In Uttar
Pradesh, Agra, G B Nagar, Ghaziabad, Varanasi, Lucknow and Lakhimpur Kheri are
part of the 80 districts where a lockdown has been ordered.
West Bengal
will close down Kolkata and North 24 Parganas.
In Gujarat,
Kutch, Rajkot, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodra and Ahmedabad will be shut.
In Kerala,
which had reported India's first coronavirus positive case, Alappuzha,
Ernakulam, Iduki, Kasargode, Kottayam, Mallapuram, Kannur, Thrissur and
Trivandrum will come under the lockdown.
Karnataka will
lockdown Bangalore, Chikkaballapura, Mysore, Kodagu and Kalaburgi.
Chhattisgarh
will shut down Raipur.
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