nashik with an aim to get some relaxation from the lockdown senior officials from across the district are working overtime to contain the spread of covid19 and ensure there are no new hotspotson tuesday while addressing the nation prime minister narendra modi said that areas that show good record and there is no increase in the number of covid 19 patients would be given relaxation from the lockdown to resume activities after april 20a senior district administration official said that thousands of health workers and medical officers are working to trace covid19 patients and bring them immediately under treatment leena bansod ceo of nashik zilla parishad said the nashik municipal corporation malegaon municipal corporation and rural parts of the districts are treated separately in the assessment for covid19thus some areas could get relaxation from the lockdown we are working hard to trace people with travel history and those who may have come in contact with positive covid19 patients other measures taken are to get the suspect patients quarantined and tested at the earliest so that chances of spreading the disease are prevented she saidthe nashik municipal corporation nmc has already started taking various measures to prevent new hotspots of covid19 in the citywe are keeping a close eye on those coming into the city from malegaon which is the most covid19 affected areas in the district such people are immediately sent to institutional quarantine a civic official saidmoreover the civic body has also made a group of homequarantined people and is taking regular update from themwe are taking measures to ensure that there are no new hotspot in the city we are taking all preventive measures to curb spread of covid19 the official saidthe nmc has also formed teams of health officials doctors nurses and asha workers to conduct doortodoor survey across the city a doortodoor survey is also being carried out in three hotspot areas of the citya total of three people from nashik city belonging to different areas have tested positive for covid19 the civic body has sealed all the the three areas govind nagar anandvalli on gangapur road and rajlaxmi lawns on nashik road for 14 days as a precautionary measureuntil tuesday morning april 14 the district had reported 36 patients suffering from covid19 with the maximum 30 cases from malegaon so far the death toll of the district stands at 2district collector suraj mandhare said there is no community spread of the disease in the district earlier positive patients were either from family or close contacts of the positive patients if social distancing is observed we can prevent the spread of covid19