4 Covid-19 clusters identified in city

Coimbatore: The public health department has identified at least four Covid-19 clusters—with four patients each— in the city. The department also declared 43 people as positive for the novel coronavirus on Friday, taking the total number of patients to 393 in the district.
At least 33 more patients are expected to be declared positive on Saturday.
The day also saw eight men, four women and three children from the region being discharged after getting cured of the virus.
At present, there are 234 active cases in the district.
With the appearance of four new clusters, the public health department is expecting the number of positive cases to increase.
The number of positive cases in the MGR Market cluster has increased from three to nine. Kaliappan Street, which housed the vegetable wholesaler, saw three more cases from the samples collected on Thursday, and Kamarajar Street, where the market parking contractor lived, also saw three more cases. Besides, a private poultry company at Pappampatti Pirivu saw three of their employees test positive and Telugu Street now has four Covid-19 cases. The numbers in all the clusters are likely to increase.
Besides this, Mayflower apartment on Venkataswamy Road, which initially had only one Covid-19 case, saw the number increase to four within the building. However, officials hope this number stays contained.
The two-year-old grandchild of the CMCH nurse, who tested positive on Monday, also tested positive on Friday.
Meanwhile, doctors at ESI Hospital managed to perform a surgical pyloromyotomy on a 45-day-old child infected by the virus on Friday.
The child had come to Masonic Hospital a few days back with complaints of constant vomiting. The doctors on examination, found that the baby was suffering a rare congenital defect called pyloric stenosis, where the opening of the stomach into the small intestine is too narrow. As a result, babies unable to digest or process their food often vomit it out and get dehydrated and lost weight as a result. Doctors at Masonic Hospital had diagnosed it and scheduled the surgery, but the baby tested positive for the virus during the routine screening test.
The baby was immediately shifted to ESI Hospital on Thursday, where the four doctors, including two surgeons and two anesthetists, stabilized the baby and performed the hour-long surgery successfully.