CHENNAI BACK TO BUSINESS? GOVT REMOVES SOME AREAS FROM CONTAINMENT ZONES LIST, OPENS TO TRAFFIC!

The Chennai Corporation on Friday announced that it is moving a list of areas into the category of ‘non-containment zones’ since these areas have not recorded a new case over the past 28 days. These places have been declared as non- containment zones from today. 

The list updated by Greater Chennai Corporation as of 08:00 May, 14 May 2020

1- Vedantha Murugappa street - falls under division 34 of Zone 4

2- Trust Puram 1st street – falls under division 112 of Zone 9

3- Angalamman koil street, Kotturpuram- falls under division 170 of Zone 13

4- Kolavizhi Amman Kovil, Pallavakam – falls under division 185 of Zone 14

Check out Greater Chennai Corporation’s Tweet below

#Update

No new case reported in these containment zones in the past 28 days. Hence, these places will be declared non containment zones from today.#Covid19Chennai#GCC #Chennai#ChennaiCorporation pic.twitter.com/Rag9iTA1Iv

— Greater Chennai Corporation (@chennaicorp) May 14, 2020

This comes amid reports which highlight that Chennai had only 90 containment zones in Mid- April whereas it has increased to 690 within a month. There has been an increase of almost 510 zones. 

Health Department officials told the media that this number is likely to increase. Whereas, at the same time Greater Chennai Corporation is also simultaneously releasing list of non- containment zones. 

Is the situation slipping back to normalcy? One has to wait further to hear from the state government.