Tamil Nadu: Pregnant woman tests positive in Ooty

UDHAGAMANDALAM: A pregnant woman, who had returned to Ooty from Vyasarpadi in Chennai two days ago, has tested positive for Covid-19. She is admitted to the ESI Hospital in Coimbatore. According to Nilgiris collector J Innocent Divya, as the woman was in Chennai for the past nine months the case has been added to the Covid-19 tally of state’s capital city. Into seven months of her pregnancy, the woman had come to Ooty to be with her parents for the delivery.
However, Fingerpost area in Ooty, where the woman stayed at her parents’ house for a day, has been sealed and declared a containment zone. Dr P Balusamy, deputy director, public health, said throat swabs and blood samples were being collected from the woman’s primary contacts. “We are also monitoring Fingerpost area.”
Meanwhile, one of the two active Covid-19 patients from the Nilgiris was discharged from the ESI Hospital in Coimbatore, where he was undergoing treatment, after he tested negative for the virus twice.
Presently, the district has only one active case - a woman from Kozhikarai in Nanjanadu panchayat – and two containment zones. The woman was a primary contact of an earlier patient.