The Union Health Ministry has identified seven districts in Kerala as COVID-19 hotspots and included them in the 'Red Zone' category where the risk of coronavirus spread remains very high.
Red ZoneKasaragod, Kannur, Wayanad, Malappuram, Ernakulam, Pathanamthitta and Thiruvananthapuram.
Orange ZoneSix districts in the state—Thrissur, Palakkad, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Idukki, Kollam—have been incuded in non-hotspot 'Orange Zone'
Green ZoneKozhikode is the only district in the 'Green Zone'.
Districts witnessing high number of cases or high growth rate of infections are being marked as hotspots; districts where some cases have been found as non-hotspots; and those which have reported no cases as green zones.
Hotspots in other states are as follows:
Andhra Pradesh: Kurnool, Guntur, Nellore, Prakasam, Krishna, YSR, West Godavari, Chittoor, Vishakhapatnam, East Godavari, and Anantapur.
Bihar: Gaya, Begusarai, Munger, Siwan
Chandigarh: Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh: Raipur, Korba
Delhi: North West, South Delhi, Shahdara, South East, West Delhi, North Delhi, Central Delhi, East Delhi, New Delhi, and South West Delhi
Gujarat: Patan, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Bhavnagar, Rajkot
Haryana: Ambala, Karnal, Nuh, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Palwal
Jammu and Kashmir: Shopian, Rajouri, Srinagar, Bandipora, Baramulla, Jammu, Udhampur, Kupwara
Karnataka: Dakshin Kannada, Bidar, Kalburgi, Bagalkote, Dharwad, Bengaluru Urban, Mysuru, Belagavi
Kerala: Wayanad, Kasargod, Kannur, Ernakulam, Malappuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Pathanamthitta
Madhya Pradesh: Morena, Indore, Bhopal, Khargone, Ujjain, Hosangabad
Maharashtra: Kolapur, Amaravati, Palghar, Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Nagpur, Sangli, Ahmednagar, Yawatmal, Aurangabad, Buldhana, Mumbai suburban and Nasik
Odisha: Bhadrak, Khurda
Punjab: Amritsar, Mansa, Ludhiyana, Moga, Sasnagar, SBS Nagar, Jalandhar, Pathankot
Rajasthan: Udaipur, Jaipur, Tonk, Jodhpur, Banswara, Kota, Jhunjhnu, Bhilwara, Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Jhalawar and Bharatpur
Tamil Nadu: Chennai, Tiruchirapalli, Coimbatore, Erode, Tirunelveli, Dindigul, Villupuram, Namakkal, Theni, Chengalpattu, Tiruppur, Vellore, Madurai, Tuticorin, Karur, Virudhnagar, Kanniyakumari, Cuddalore, Thiruvallur, Thiruvarur, Salem, and Nagapattinam.
Telangana: Nalgonda, Hyderabad, Nizamabad, Warangal Urban, Ranga Reddy, Jogulambagadwal, Medchal Malkajgiri,Karimnagar, and Nirmal.
Uttar Pradesh: Bulandshahar, Sitapur, Basti, Baghpat, Agra, Gautam Budh Nagar, Meerut, Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Saharanpur, Shamli, Firozabad, and Moradabad
Uttarkhand: Nainital, Udhamsingh Nagar, Dehradun
West Bengal: Kolkata, Howrah, Purba Medinipur, 24 Paragana North
Andaman and Nicobar: South Andaman
Assam: Golaghat, Marigaon, Nalbari, Goalpara, Dhubri
Himachal Pradesh: Solan, Una, Sirmaur, Chamba, Kangra
Jharkhand: Ranchi, Bokaro