Here's the full list of 170 COVID-19 hotspots across India
The health ministry has defined three zones — Red, Orange and Green.
The Centre on Wednesday declared 170 districts in the country as coronavirus hotspots and 207 as non-hotspots. Hotspots are the regions that have reported a significant number of positive cases.
During the daily press briefing, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health Lav Agarwal stated that the government has asked the states to segregate the districts based on the number of cases they have reported. While the regions with the most cases are coronavirus hotspots, non-hotspots are those districts where less number of cases are found. The discricts where no case has been found is the green zone.
As per data till yesterday, 170 districts have been classified as hotspot districts. Non-hotspot districts where cases have been reported are 207 in number," adding "Cluster containment plan needs to be implemented in those 207 non-hotspots as they can develop as potential hotspots," Aggarwal said.
He also clarified that there's no community transmission yet in the country. "What we are seeing is some local outbreaks and clusters, where cluster and outbreak containment strategies are being adopted," he said.
Aggarwal further said that the cabinet secretary held a video conference today with all chief secretaries, DGPs, health secretaries, collectors, SPs, municipal commissioners and CMOs where hot spots was discussed and orientation on field level implementation of containment strategy was given.
The health ministry has defined three zones — Red, Orange and Green. The districts in Red zone can become Orange zone if no new cases reported in the last 14 days, while the oranage zone can convert into Green zone if no case is reported in the last 14 days.
This way, if a Red zone has to convert in the Green zone, it will take 28 days with no new cases.
Here is the full list of the 170 coronavirus hotspots in India.
Total hotspots Red Zone Districts: 123 (Large Outbreak)
1- Andhra Pradesh (11 Districts): Kurnool, Guntur, Nellore, Prakasam, Krishna, YSR, West Godavari, Chittoor, Vishakhapatnam, East Godavari, and Anantapur.
2- Bihar (1 District): Siwan
3- Chandigarh UT (1 District): Chandigarh
4- Chhatisgarh (1 District): Korba
5- Delhi: (9 Districts): South Delhi, Shahdara, South East, West Delhi, North Delhi, Central Delhi, East Delhi, New Delhi, and South West Delhi
6- Gujarat (5 Districts): Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Bhavnagar, Rajkot
7- Haryana (4 Districts): Nuh, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Palwal
8- Jammu and Kashmir (6 Districts): Srinagar, Bandipora, Baramulla, Jammu, Udhampur, Kupwara
9- Karnataka (3 Districts): Bengaluru Urban, Mysuru, Belagavi
10- Kerala (6 Districts): Kasargod, Kannur, Ernakulam, Malappuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Pathanamthitta
11- Madhya Pradesh (5 Districts): Indore, Bhopal, Khargone, Ujjain, Hosangabad
12- Maharashtra (11 Districts): Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Nagpur, Sangli, Ahmednagar, Yawatmal, Aurangabad, Buldhana, Mumbai suburban and Nasik
13- Odisha (1 District): Khurda
14- Punjab (4 Districts): Sasnagar, SBS Nagar, Jalandhar, Pathankot
15- Rajasthan (11 Districts): Jaipur, Tonk, Jodhpur, Banswara, Kota, Jhunjhnu, Bhilwara, Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Jhalawar and Bharatpur
16- Tamil Nadu (22 Districts): Chennai, Tiruchirapalli, Coimbatore, Erode, Tirunelveli, Dindigul, Villupuram, Namakkal, Theni, Chengalpattu, Tiruppur, Vellore, Madurai, Tuticorin, Karur, Virudhnagar, Kanniyakumari, Cuddalore, Thiruvallur, Thiruvarur, Salem, and Nagapattinam.
17-Telangana (8 Districts): Hyderabad, Nizamabad, Warangal Urban, Ranga Reddy, Jogulambagadwal, Medchal Malkajgiri,
Karimnagar, and Nirmal.
18- Uttar Pradesh (9 Districts): Agra, Gautam Budh Nagar, Meerut, Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Saharanpur, Shamli, Firozabad, and Moradabad
19- Uttarkhand (1 District): Dehradun
20- West Bengal (4 Districts): Kolkata, Howrah, Purba Medinipur, 24 Paragana North
47 Hotspot Districts with Cluster
1- Andaman and Nicobar: (District -1): South Andaman
2 -Assam (Districts 5): Golaghat, Marigaon, Nalbari, Goalpara, Dhubri
3 -Bihar (Districts 3): Munger, Begusarai, Gaya
4- Chhatisgarh (District 1): Raipur
5- Delhi (Districts 1): North West
6- Gujarat (District 1): Patan
7- Haryana (District 2): Ambala, Karnal
8- Himachal Pradesh (Districts 5): Solan, Una, Sirmaur, Chamba, Kangra
9- Jammu and Kashmir (Districts 2): Shopian, Rajouri
10- Jharkhand (Districts 2): Ranchi, Bokaro
11- Karnataka (Districts 5): Dakshin Kannada, Bidar, Kalburgi, Bagalkote, Dharwad
12- Kerala (District 1): Wayanad
13- Ladakh (District 1): Kargil
14- Madhya Pradesh (District 1): Morena
15- Maharashtra (Districts 3): Kolapur, Amaravati, Palghar
16- Odisha (District 1): Bhadrak
7- Punjab (Districts 4): Amritsar, Mansa, Ludhiyana, Moga
18- Rajasthan (District 1): Udaipur
19- Telangana (District 1): Nalgonda
20- UP (Districts 4): Bulandshahar, Sitapur, Basti, Baghpat
21- Uttarakhand (Districts 2): Nainital, Udhamsingh Nagar