Police zero in on five corona hotspots in Prayagraj range

PRAYAGRAJ: A day after four new novel coronavirus cases from Pratapgarh and Kaushambi took Prayagraj region’s tally to nine, police on Thursday identified five hotspots in the three districts which are most prone to the virus spread.
Till now, six novel coronavirus positive cases have been reported in Pratapgarh, two in Kaushambi and one in Prayagraj district.
IG (Prayagraj range) KP Singh said “The five hot spots are Abdullah mosque, Musafirkhana in Prayagraj’s Shahganj, Malaq Panchambha (Kada dham) village of Sirathu tehsil in Kaushambi and Jama Masjid campus and, Narsinghgarh and Sabalgarh Dirwa villages in Pratapgarh district.”
“Police have enforced a complete lockdown in all four districts of Prayagraj range.Over 200 FIRs have been lodged against violators of lockdown norms in different police stations under section 188 of the IPC for the violation of section 144 of CrPc in the range ever since the lockdown was enforced,” he added. The districts comprising Prayagraj range are Pratapgarh, Prayagraj, Kaushambi and Fatehpur.
Meanwhile, SSP (Prayagraj) Satyarth Anirudh Pankaj on Thursday said that, “The 11 Muslims traced by Phulpur police on Wednesday night in a house in Phulpur block had no link with the Tablighi Jamaat event.” He said that the group had returned to Prayagraj on March 4 from Delhi after attending a religious programme organised at Sahi Edgah Kasabpura on February 22-24. A team of health officials also conducted their medical examination and they have been quarantined at two different locations as a precaution.