. To fight against Covid-19, government has classified the States and Union Territories of India into three zones; Red, Orange and Green Zones.
On the basis of the above classification, on a political map of India, mark three states each having maximum area under Red, Orange and Green Zones. (Use red, orange and green
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. To fight against Covid-19, government has classified the States and Union Territories of India into three zones; Red, Orange and Green Zones.
On the basis of the above classification, on a political map of India, mark three states each having maximum area under Red, Orange and Green Zones. (Use red, orange and green
Under this classification, a district will be considered under green zone if there has been no confirmed case of COVID-19 so far or if there is no reported case since last 21 days in the district. Red zones are identified based on total active cases, doubling rate of confirmed cases, extent of testing and district feedback.
The new classification of districts was announced following a video-conference chaired by the Cabinet Secretary on April 30 with the Chief Secretaries and Health Secretaries of the States
The classification of districts comes as the country recorded 1,993 new cases of COVID-19, taking the total to 35,365 with a recovery rate of 25.37%.
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Till now any red or orange zone districts could become a green zone if no fresh case of coronavirus was reported for 28 and 14 consecutive days respectively. In the list, all the 11 districts in Delhi have been classified under the red zone hotspots. Uttar Pradesh has 19 districts in the red zone, Maharashtra 14, Tamil Nadu 12, 16 in orange and six in green zone, while Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh nine each.
Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Meghalaya, Puducherry and Tripura have no red zone districts.Speaking at the daily press briefing, Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal said the country will need to get used to a new normal in terms of maintaining social distancing norms.