Hi Welcome You can highlight texts in any article and it becomes audio news that you can hear
  • Fri. Nov 22nd, 2024

Lockdown 2.0: What are red, orange, green zones?

Byindianadmin

Apr 16, 2020 #orange, #zones
Lockdown 2.0: What are red, orange, green zones?

TIMESOFINDIA.COM/ Updated: Apr 16, 2020, 08: 52 IST

Facebook Twitter Linkedin Mail

AA

Text Size
  • Small
  • Medium
  • Big

NEW DELHI: To tackle the outbreak of coronavirus in an effective and structured manner, the Union ministry of health and household welfare has actually classified country’s districts in three zones – Red, Orange and Green– based on the seriousness of break out in those areas.

A look at what these three categorisations mean–

1

Red zone

The Centre has called hotspot districts as Red Zone as it needs to have focused attention in these locations reporting a large number of Covid-19 cases and high development rate. The health ministry has classified 170 hotspot districts under the ‘Red Zone’. This is further divided into 2 groups i.e. there are 123 hotspot districts with a large outbreak and 47 hotspot districts with clusters.

The federal government will try to offer door-to-door facilities in these locations.

The inclusion requirements for hotspots (Red Zone), according to the federal government, includes, “Highest caseload districts adding to more than 80 per cent of cases in India or greatest

Learn More

Click to listen highlighted text!