Red zone Chattabal sealed & sanitised

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, April 8

Chattabal, a designated red-zone, was sealed on Wednesday as teams of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) launched a daylong sanitisation drive in the dense neighbourhood.

The neighbourhood, which is located on the edge of the old city, was sealed as all its entry and exit points were blocked and no one was allowed to enter or leave Chattabal.

The area was designated as a red zone last week and police vehicles were placed on its entry and exit points.

Chattabal is a densely populated neighbourhood which witnessed some of the first cases that tested Covid positive. Several other residential neighbourhoods in Srinagar with positive cases, have also been declared red zones.

The sealing off of Chattabal came at a time when the SMC launched a major decontamination and sanitisation drive there and 14 mechanised decontamination vehicles were deployed to sanitise the area.

The SMC is conducting a sanitisation drive of the red zone localities and will move to Lal Bazar tomorrow and to Eidgah on Friday. “We will sanitise one red zone per day,” Mayor Junaid Mattu said. “All of this and other massive efforts will yield results only if people stay home and maintain social distancing,” he said.