Coronavirus in Coimbatore: Six more test positive for Covid-19

COIMBATORE: Six more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Coimbatore. All of them either have a travel history or were in contact with people who had a travel history.
Four of them were found through contact tracing initiatives. The health department also plans to issue a notice to a family at Vadavalli for making false statements in their initial declaration of travel history and movements.
The six include a 39-year-old woman and a 29-year-old woman from Vadavalli, who were close contacts of a 27-year-old man who claimed that he returned from Pallikaranai in Chennai on Monday and tested positive the following day.
The 27-year-old man told health department officials that he had come straight to Coimbatore Medical College Hospital after returning from Chennai by road and that he had not visited his family at Vadavalli.
“He claimed that he went home only after submitting his sample on Monday,” said a health department official. “However, when our team visited the field in Vadavalli and his neighbourhood, people said they had seen the man in the area before. We then ordered his family to go to the nearest PHC and give samples. The samples tested positive,” he said.
“We plan to issue a notice under the Tamil Nadu Public Health Act and the Epidemics Diseases Act for not quarantining themselves properly and not revealing honest travel and contact history,” he added.
Another two include a 37-year-old administrative officer with the police and his 32-year-old wife, who is a nurse at the Mettur urban primary health centre.
The officer who was posted in Chennai returned to the city on June 5 and joined duty in Tirupur on June 6, again without quarantining himself. However, his wife, who had been on quarantine before June 1, was to join duty later this week. But since her husband had a travel history, PHC doctors insisted that they both get tested, and both turned positive.
The other two people found positive through contact tracing include a 10-year-old girl from Peelamedy and a 37-year-old woman from Olympus. The girl flew down to the city from Chennai with her four- year-old brother and 31-year-old mother on June 7. Her mother and brother tested positive at the airport. The girl had tested negative at the airport.
However, when health department went to their apartment in Peelamedu and took the samples of the entire family and close contacts, the girl’s swab turned positive. She has been moved a private hospital, where her mother and brother are being treated.
A 37-year-old woman from Olympus, who lives next door to a CMCH physiotherapy technician who tested positive on Sunday, also tested positive. She was also found when health department officials started collecting nasal swabs of all the technician’s contacts after he returned from Villupuram. She has been moved to ESI Hospital.