HYDERABAD: While the number of Covid19 positive cases has been increasing alarmingly in the city limits, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is reducing the number of containment zones. The GHMC, which set up 63 micro containment zones for 989 C-positive cases on Thursday, brought down the number to 52 on Friday even as another 1,005 new Covid cases have been added to the city’s caseload.
Lack of enforcement of containment regulations is seriously affected localities is a matter of worry for residents in the adjoining areas.
With the spike in Covid-19 cases, the GHMC has identified 63 containment zones in various places under LB Nagar, Charminar, Khairatabad and Serilingampally areas. Under LB Nagar Zone, Kapra-1, Uppal-2, Hayathnagar-3, Saroornagar-4 and LB Nagar areas have two containment areas each. Also, Malakpet-6, Santoshnagar-7, Chandrayangutta-8, Charminar-9, Falaknuma-10 and Rajendranagar-11 have two containment areas each under the Charminar…