New Delhi, April 23: SBS Nagar in Punjab has entered the list of 12 Indian districts that have not seen any new COVID 19 case for 28 days in a row.
Any district that manages to duck new COVID infections for 28 days in a row enters the green zone category which the Centre has designed to earmark the vulnerability of districts depending on the disease burden.
Districts with doubling of cases every less than four days are red zone hotspot districts and those with no cases for 14 days are orange zone districts.
Moga, Muktsar and Amritsar in Punjab and Kaithal in Haryana have meanwhile entered the group of 78 districts with no new cases in 14 days which puts these areas in the orange zone.
The hotspot red zone districts are the ones where strict lockdown controls are applicable and non-essential services are being permitted.
The other districts with no cases in 28 days are Mahe in Puducherry, Kodagu in Karnataka, Pauri Garhwal in Uttarakhand, Chitradurga in (Karnataka), Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh), Imphal West (Manipur), Aizawl West (Mizoram), Bhadradari Kothagudem (Telangana), Pilibhit, SBS Nagar and South Goa.
Among 33 new districts in nine states with no case in 14 days are Hailakandi, South Mancachar from Assam, Kaithal from Haryana, Ernakulam, Idukki, Thrissur and Alappuzha from Kerala, Vidisha from Madhya Pradesh, Cuttack, Kendrapara, Dhenkanal from Odisha, Moga, Amritsar, Muktsar from Punjab, Sidipet, Pedapally, Nagarkurnool, Mulugu, Janagaon, Mahabubabad, Mahaboobnagar and Sangareddy from Telangana, Udhamsingh Nagar and Almora from Uttrakhand, Hathras, Allahabad, Barabanki, Lakhimpur Kheri, Maharajganj, Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Kaushambi and Pratapgrah from UP.
As of today India has a total of 21393 COVID cases with 4527 cured and 681 deaths.
