Jammu: The district administration in Jammu Thursday de-notified a micro-containment zone at Saraswati Vihar in Bohri.
“The micro-containment zone has been de-notified after around six COVID-19 positive cases recovered from the deadly virus,” the official said.
He said that even after the de-notification of a micro-containment zone, the Jammu district still had around 10 micro-containment zones.
Today, Jammu recorded 19 COVID-19 cases in the district.
Meanwhile, authorities are likely to declare another micro-containment zone in the Jammu district by Friday with the detection of five cases from a residential colony in Talab Tillo.
Officials in the Department of Health said, “Amar Colony in Talab Tillo may be declared a micro-containment zone after five COVID-19 positive cases were detected from the colony.”
They said that the area would be put under strict COVID-19 restrictions and that the people in the locality would be tested for COVID-19.
“These cases had attended marriage ceremonies and all of them have symptoms,” the officials said. “They were detected of having the delta variant of COVID-19.”
“An official order to declare Amar Colony a micro-containment will be issued on Friday,” an official in the civil administration said.