Tamil Nadu: Four new Covid-19 cases take total in Coimbatore to 146

Pratiksha Ramkumar | TNN | May 3, 2020, 17:47 IST

A sanitary worker spraying disinfectant on road near court campus in Coimbatore.

COIMBATORE: Four people in the district tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, taking the total number of cases to 146. While one of them is a 31-year-old pregnant mother from Saramedu, the other three patients belong to a family staying in Baba Street in Venkitapuram. All four of them have been transferred to ESI hospitals and their family members, including those who tested negative and yet to be tested, have been isolated. The source of infection for all four of them remains untraceable. The public health department have cordoned off Baba Street, Union Post Office Road and Saramedu on Sunday, making them containment zones.
The number of covid-19 cases in the district jumped from 141 on Friday to 146 Sunday. Officials confirmed that three out of a family, of four in Venkitapuram isolated on Saturday, tested positive for the virus. The three include a 62-year-old man, who runs xerox and mobile phone recharge shop in the same area, his 43-year-old wife and 10-year-old son. The man’s nine-year-old daughter has tested negative but has anyway been isolated in ESI Hospital to be on the safer side. All four of them are completely asymptomatic, confirm K K Pudur primary health centre officials who transferred them.
Meanwhile, the 31-year-old pregnant woman who also has no symptoms, had approached KG Hospital last week to get admitted for delivery of her second child. She was due on May 22. The hospital tested her virus and sent the sample to Coimbatore Medical College Hospital.