No Aundh, Baner, Pashan resident at Balewadi quarantine centre, says PMC

Residents texted and sought information when a message from corporator Jyoti Kalamkar said 300 residents had been quarantined at Nicmar out of which 24 had tested positive

Not a single person from Aundh, Baner, Balewadi and Pashan has tested positive at the quarantined centre created at the National Institute of Construction Management and Research (Nicmar), Balewadi, Pune municipal corporation’s Assistant commissioner, Jaideep Pawar said.

Not a single person from Aundh, Baner, Balewadi and Pashan has tested positive at the quarantined centre created at the National Institute of Construction Management and Research (Nicmar), Balewadi, Pune municipal corporation’s Assistant commissioner, Jaideep Pawar said. (HT/PHOTO)

Residents of prabhag (ward sub-division) 8 (Aundh-Bopodi), 9 (Baner, Balewadi, Pashan) anxiously texted and sought information when a message from corporator Jyoti Kalamkar to her prabhag residents said 300 residents had been quarantined at Nicmar out of which 24 had tested positive and shifted to a Covid hospital for treatment. She urged people from the area to take extreme precaution and not step out unnecessarily.

When asked for a clarification on the situation, Pawar said, Nicmar is an institutional quarantine centre which in the future will be a Covid-19 care centre. With a total capacity of 1,200 beds, it was acquired by the district collector and handed over to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to be converted into a quarantine zone.