The Uttrakhand authorities have designated Haridwar and Nainital as ‘red zones’ or hotspots after a spike in the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in these two districts, news agency ANI reported on Sunday.
Two more people in Haridwar have tested positive for coronavirus which has taken the state tally to 42 on Sunday.
Yugal Kishor Pant, additional secretary (Health), said that 80% of the COVID-19 cases in the state are from Dehradun, Haridwar and Nainital districts. The state capital, Dehradun, has already been classified as a ‘red zone’.
Earlier this week, the government divided the country into color-coded areas depending on the level of infection— red zones indicate infection hotspots, orange some infection, while green denotes an area with no infections.
The districts seeing a high number of cases or high growth rates of infections were marked as hotspots; districts where some cases have been found as non-hotspots; and those which have reported no cases as green zones.
