As part of its lockdown exit plan, 22 coronavirus (covid-19) clusters with high number of cases in Andhra Pradesh will have a containment zone of 1 kilometre, while 103 clusters which have less than 10 positive cases are to be under a containment zone of about 400-meter radius including the buffer. AP chief minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday also announced that collection of electricity bills will be deferred till 30 June following complaints of inflated amounts from the public.
The identification of clusters in such a manner was designed as part of AP’s lockdown exit plan in a meeting between government officials and Jagan Mohan Reddy, who asked the former to prepare a post lockdown exit plan for the state. With the ongoing lockdown coming to an end on 17 May, he directed officials concerned to come with a standard operating procedure (SOP) for places where there would be large gatherings likes schools.
