COIMBATORE: The rate of Covid-19 infection in the district and neighbouring Tirupur and the Nilgiris is on the decline. While it has come down to 0.6% from around 4% in the district, it has dropped to 0.2% from 9.6% in Tirupur.
According to the district public health department officials, they had tested at least 4,432 samples as on Tuesday evening, of which 141 were positive cases. They say the number of people testing positive is reducing day by day.
Coimbatore collector K Rajamani says, “When we were testing only people with travel history and symptoms initially in March, 58 of the 263 samples had tested positive. However, once we began to trace and test their contacts and family members since the beginning of April, 68 of the 2,169 people, who were screened, had tested positive. And hardly 15 of the 2,191 samples have tested positive since April 16.”
He confirmed that the number of new positive cases has dropped, despite an increase in the number of people being tested.
The collector said the public health department has been instructed to continue testing vulnerable sections of people, mainly frontline workers, this week. “We have tested only the police officers in containment areas so far. We will now test the entire police force in the city and even rural areas, if possible, by this weekend.”
Officials hinted that they could extend tests to all conservancy workers too. On Tuesday, 100 media professionals were tested for the virus.
The neighbouring garment hub Tirupur and hill station Nilgiris too are progressing equally well. Officials recalled that before April 16, 108 of the 1,122 people, who were screened, had tested positive in Tirupur, when the infection rate was at a high of 9.6%. However, in the past 12 days, only four of 1,800 people, who were screened, have tested positive.
Tirupur collector K Vijaykarthikeyan says, “We had a spurt from April 14 to 16, when nearly 28 people from containment zones tested positive. And that was due to our contact tracing efforts. Since then we have had just four new cases and that too from the same pockets.”
The Nilgiris hasn’t reported any new positive case since the initial nine cases, most of who had a travel history to New Delhi.
According to the district public health department officials, they had tested at least 4,432 samples as on Tuesday evening, of which 141 were positive cases. They say the number of people testing positive is reducing day by day.
Coimbatore collector K Rajamani says, “When we were testing only people with travel history and symptoms initially in March, 58 of the 263 samples had tested positive. However, once we began to trace and test their contacts and family members since the beginning of April, 68 of the 2,169 people, who were screened, had tested positive. And hardly 15 of the 2,191 samples have tested positive since April 16.”
He confirmed that the number of new positive cases has dropped, despite an increase in the number of people being tested.
The collector said the public health department has been instructed to continue testing vulnerable sections of people, mainly frontline workers, this week. “We have tested only the police officers in containment areas so far. We will now test the entire police force in the city and even rural areas, if possible, by this weekend.”
Officials hinted that they could extend tests to all conservancy workers too. On Tuesday, 100 media professionals were tested for the virus.
The neighbouring garment hub Tirupur and hill station Nilgiris too are progressing equally well. Officials recalled that before April 16, 108 of the 1,122 people, who were screened, had tested positive in Tirupur, when the infection rate was at a high of 9.6%. However, in the past 12 days, only four of 1,800 people, who were screened, have tested positive.
Tirupur collector K Vijaykarthikeyan says, “We had a spurt from April 14 to 16, when nearly 28 people from containment zones tested positive. And that was due to our contact tracing efforts. Since then we have had just four new cases and that too from the same pockets.”
The Nilgiris hasn’t reported any new positive case since the initial nine cases, most of who had a travel history to New Delhi.
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