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- Thursday | 8th December, 2022
Several lanes in the old city areas have been barricaded by the SMC after they were declared containment zones. The lanes where trading takes place in the Mahidharpura diamond market have been sealed at multiple locations. Similarly, those around the textile market area in the Salabatpura area are also sealed. Various internal roads in Nandu Doshi Ni Wadi in Katargam, a diamond polishing hub, have also been barricaded.
In a bid to curb the rising Covid-19 infectins, the Surat Municipal Corpoation issued a notification banning entry of workers or employees above 45 years of age and who have not taken vaccines into textile markets, diamond units, Hira Bazaar, commercial shopping centres, malls, industrials units.
"The people above 45 years of age fall in the high-risk group and therefore they will be allowed at such workplace. Moreover, those workers under 45 years will have to produce a negative RT-PCR or Rapid Antigen Test report or else they will not be allowed to enter work on such places,`` the notification stated.
Several lanes in the old city areas have been barricaded by the SMC after they were declared containment zones. The lanes where trading takes place in Mahidharpura diamond market have been sealed at multiple locations. Similarly, those around the textile market area in the Salabatpura area are also sealed.
Various internal roads in Nandu Doshi Ni Wadi in Katargam, a diamond polishing hub, have also been barricaded.
"The civic body`s authorized officers will pay surprise visits to such workplaces and carry out inspection to ensure that this notification is implemented. “Any establishment found violating the notification will be booked under Epidemic Diseases Act-1897 and section 188 of IPC,” officials said.
SMC also carried out Covid-19 testing of 639 priests at temples, mosques and churches of which 12 were found positive. On Saturday, 821 masons were also tested across the eight civic zones of which 16 were found positive. "We had carried out testing of casual workers who gather at the city`s different `Kadiyanakas` to trace `super spreaders`. All the 16 who tested positive were from Udhna zone alone,`` said an SMC official.
Eight Covid-19 patients succumbed in Surat city on Sunday while 545 new infection cases surfaced. According to Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) officials, of the eight deaths, six were women. With the fresh deaths, total Covid-19 casualty has reached 908 since the outbreak of pandemic last year.
The dead included a 56-year-old from Rudarpura, a 50-year-old woman from Dindoli, a 76-year-old man from Udhna, a 40-year-old woman from Puna gam, a 65-year-old woman from Pal, a 65-year-old Mota Varachha and a 33-year-old woman from Varachha area.
The number of patients who have been admitted into different hospitals for treatment went up to 1,510.
Navsari also recorded 20 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, taking the total number of infections to 1,773 in the district.
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