According to the latest list released by the West Bengal government on Saturday, West Bengal now only has one containment zone at Umesh Datta Lane in Girish Park area of north Kolkata. The area falls under Kolkata Municipal Corporation Ward 26 of Borough 4 of the city, it said.
The previous list of August 23 had 17 containment zones for Covid-19 prevalence in the city.
Containment zones in the city have come down gradually from as high as 338 on May 11 with neighbouring districts of Howrah having 74 containment zones, spread over Howrah Sadar and Uluberia sub-divisions, South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas having 54 and 31 containment zones respectively, as per the list released by the government.
A bulletin by the state health department also said that the COVID-19 death toll in West Bengal crossed the 3,500 marks to reach 3,510 on Saturday after 58 more people succumbed to the disease and 3,042 fresh cases of the contagion took the tally to 1,77,701 on Saturday.
North 24 Parganas district reported the highest number of new infections at 559 while Kolkata recorded 548 fresh cases.
