The
government has decided to divide all districts across the country into
hotspots, non-hotspots and green zones. The health and family welfare ministry
has identified 170 hotspot districts, 207 non-hotspot districts reporting cases
and 359 green zone districts not reporting any cases across the country. These numbers will increase or decrease based
on fresh cases of novel coronavirus infection.
This
will help in managing the Covid-19 pandemic as well as partial opening up of
economic activities during the extended period of the nationwide lockdown. This
would help in management of hotspots and spread of pandemic.
The
health ministry used two criteria to classify the districts as hotspots — the
absolute number of cases and the speed of growth in cases.
The
technical definition followed to classify the districts is any district
reporting more than six cases would be classified as hotspot district or red
zone. Any hotspot district with more than 15 cases would be treated as a
district witnessing outbreak. Tamil Nadu has maximum number of districts (22)
under “red zone” (Hotspots).
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