Chandigarh, Patiala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Sonepat, Faridabad on Centre's red-zone district list

Aditi Tandon

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 1

Ahead of the May 3 deadline for lockdown-2, the Centre on Friday listed 130 red districts under COVID 19 vulnerability assessment, 284 orange and 319 green districts.

The data present encouraging trends with 17.7 per cent of all 733 districts of India in the red zone; 38.7 per cent in orange and a significant 43.5 per cent in the green zone.

While green zone districts are those which either have no cases or have not reported a case in 21 days, orange zone districts are the ones with no new cases in 14 days. Red zone districts are the ones with more than five cases each and case doubling at less than four days.

The northern region covering Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Himachal, JK and Ladakh has 10 red districts, 41 orange and 15 green districts.

Chandigarh has been retained in the red hotspot zone where active containment and lockdown conditions will continue beyond May 3, as in other red districts.

Punjab has three red districts — Jalandhar, Patiala, Ludhiana; 15 Orange districts (SAS Nagar, Pathankot, Mansa, Tarn Taran, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur, Faridkot, Sangrur, SBS Nagar, Ferozepur, Muktsar, Moga, Gurdaspur, Barnala); three green districts (Rupnagar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Bathinda).

Haryana has two red districts Sonepat and Faridabad and two green districts Mahendragarh and Rewari.

Orange districts in Haryana are Gurugram, Nuh, Panipat, Panchkula, Palwal, Rohtak, Hisar, Ambala, Jhajjar, Bhiwani, Kaithal, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Jind, Sirsa, Yamunanagar, Fatehabad, Charkhi Dadri.

Himachal has no red zone and has six green and orange districts respectively.

JK has four red and green districts each and 12 orange districts while Ladakh’s two districts are orange.

Green districts could see significant relaxations post May 3 while orange could see partial relaxations.

The districts have been listed in a letter health secretary Preeti Sudan wrote to state chief secretaries on Thursday night.