The Centre has finalised the criteria for delimitation of various zones after May 3. It has identified at least 130 districts as red zones, 284 orange zones and 319 green zones.
According to a letter written by Health Secretary Preeti Sudan to the chief secretaries of all states and union territories, all the states have to delineate the containment areas and buffer zones in the identified red and orange zone districts and notify the same.
Uttar Pradesh has 19 red zones, 36 orange zones and 20 green zones. The Gutam buddha Nagar in Uttar Pradesh has been identified as a red zone district while, Ghaziabad has been designated as an orange zone.
Here is the list of red, orange and green zones in Uttar Pradesh:
Red Zones:
Agra
Lucknow
Saharanpur
Kanpur Nagar
Moradabad
Firozabad
Gautam Buddha Nagar
Bulandshahr
Meerut
Rae Bareli
Varanasi
Bijnor
Amroha
Sant Kabir Nagar
Aligarh
Muzaffarnagar
Rampur
Mathura
Bareilly
Orange Zones:
Ghaziabad
Hapur
Baghpat
Basti
Budaun
Sambhal
Auraiya
Shamli
Sitapur
Bahraich
Kannauj
Azamgarh
Mainpuri
Shravasti
Banda
Jaunpur
Etah
Kasganj
Sultanpur
Prayagraj
Jalaun
Mirzapur
Etawah
Pratapgarh
Ghazipur
Gonda
Mau
Bhadohi
Unnao
Pilibhit
Balrampur
Ayodhya
Gorakhpur
Jhansi
Hardoi
Kaushambi
Green Zones:
Barabanki
Kheri
Hathras
Maharajganj
Shahjahanpur
Ambedkar Nagar
Ballia
Chandauli
Chitrakoot
Deoria
Farrukhabad
Fatehpur
Hamirpur
Kanpur Dehat
Kushi Nagar
Lalitpur
Mahoba
Siddharth Nagar
Sonbhadra
Amethi