Erode reports 6 new positive cases as 13 get discharged from hospital

TNN | Updated: Apr 16, 2020, 10:02 IST

Erode: The district reported six new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday even as 13 patients, who had tested positive earlier, were discharged from the IRT government hospital in Perundurai here after 28 days of treatment.
While two of the new positive cases are attendees of Tablighi Jamaat conference in New Delhi, the remaining four are their family members. All the six have been admitted to the IRT government hospital.
Salem also reported three new cases on Wednesday, taking the total number of novel coronavirus patients in the district to 22 from the earlier 19. With this, the district that was in ‘orange’ zone is moving towards ‘red’ zone.
Erode collector C Kathiravan said the 13 discharged patients have been advised to remain in home quarantine for another two weeks. “Doctors and health department officials will check them daily.”
He said the 13 were among the 64 Covid-19 positive patients, who were getting treatment at the IRT government hospital, which now has a total of 57 positive cases, including the six fresh cases that were reported on Wednesday. “There are another 52 people in the hospital with Covid-19 symptoms,” the collector said.
All the 13 were given a warm send-off by Kathiravan, district superintendent of police S Sakthi Ganesan and other officials.
Pointing out that 1.27 lakh people were in home quarantine in the district, Kathiravan said, “Of them, 66 have been found sick and we have collected samples from them for testing.”
Namakkal district, which has 45 covid-19 cases, did not report any new case on Wednesday.