In addition, the number of wards where such containment streets don’t exist is also decreasing at a fast rate, showing the spread of the infection across the city that is divided into 200 wards spread across 15 zones.
On April 18, there were 118 streets which had recorded more than 10 Covid-19 cases each and where the civic body has initiated the toughest containment measures. On April 25, the number of such streets increased to 308, corporation data shows.
On April 18, 140 wards, which account for 70% of the city, did not have a single containment zone. Within a week, only 84 wards did not have a containment zone.
As on April 25, Teynampet zone in the Central Chennai region had the maximum number of such containment zones (65), but data shows that these streets are pretty evenly spread out across the 18 wards in the zone, with the maximum, 7, being in ward
119.
Royapuram zone in North Chennai has 64 such containment zones, with the wards of Periyamedu, Egmore and Kondithope accounting for 38 of these. Royapuram is also currently the only zone which has wards with more than 10 such streets which have more than 10 cases each.
Wards on the peripheries of the city in zones like Perungudi, Sholinganallur, Alandur, Thiruvottiyur, Ambattur, Manali and Madhavaram don’t have many streets reporting more than 10 Covid cases. This has been a consistent feature of the pandemic in the city. These are areas which were added to the corporation limits in 2011and are not as thickly populated as the core city areas.
None of the wards, except Wimco Nagar, in Thiruvottiyur zone has a street with more than 10 Covid-19 cases. Similarly, Perungudi zone in South Chennai has only four wards with each having one street with more than 10 cases.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/spike-in-chennais-containment-zones/articleshow/82285651.cms
