Covid-19 cases in Coimbatore breach 1,000-mark

COIMBATORE: The district breached the 1,000-mark in Covid-19 cases on Thursday, after it declared 98 more positive cases, the highest number of cases declared positive in a single day.
While 85 of them are local cases, 13 are imported cases with an international and domestic travel history. The total number of cases stood at 1,026.
The death toll also increased by three, taking the total number of victims to 10. They were a 43-year-old man from Varadharajapuram, who got admitted at the ESI Hospital on July 2, a 58-year-old man from Sulur and a 72-year-old woman from Ganapathy, who tested positive on July 1. She was suffering from uncontrolled diabetes mellitus.
The 38-year-old wife of the Varadharajapuram man has also tested positive.
Tirupur, which logged six new cases, also recorded one death with a demise of a 85-year-old woman from Lakshmi Nagar. She died at the ESI hospital.
Another 47 people tested positive in the district on Thursday and will feature in the government bulletin.
Coimbatore corporation officials ordered a jewellery store in Gandhipuram to close for three days after two employees tested positive. They have asked the store owners to fumigate the store on Thursday and shut it for 48 hours.
The officials also found a 25-year-old employee of a mobile phone store on the 100 Feet Road and one more person positive. The shop was closed and the building was marked as a containment zone.
Besides the Bihari cluster that broke out in the Kurichi-based company, cases from Selvapuram continued to trickle in, prompting corporation authorities to close entry into Selvapuram from Gandhi Park. While a 45-year-old woman in Selvapuram Central tested positive, four more people from Savithri Nagar within Selvapuram also tested positive. They include a 59-year-old man, 51-year-old woman, a 49-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman.
The cluster seems to have reached the Raja Street, which houses several jewellery retails shops that the gold factories in Selvapuram supply to. Three young men including two 18-year-old boys and a 25-year-old man in the jewellery hub tested positive. This adds another eight cases to the Selvapuram jewellery cluster.
An engineering products and services company based in Chinniyampalayam, which first saw three of its employees test positive for the virus on Saturday, continued to see cases trickling in on Thursday, when a 29-year-old man tested positive.