More than 100 cases recorded for fourth consecutive day

Coimbatore: With logging 140 fresh cases on Monday, the district recorded more than 100 Covid-19 cases for the fourth consecutive day in a row, taking the tally to 2,183. Two more deaths were recorded, taking the toll to 22.
With the cases in the district galloping towards the projection of 4,000 cases as on August 1, authorities have begun work to increase the bed strength at Covid care centre at CODISSIA.
The two deaths, both patients with chronic kidney disease, include an 80-year-old woman, who got admitted to the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on July 16 with severe breathing difficulty. She tested positive on July 17. She died two days later because of pulmonary edema, a condition with too much fluid collection in the lungs and air sacs, making it difficult to breathe.
The other death is a 70-year-old man who suffered a stroke and got admitted at CMCH on July 11. He tested positive the next day and was shifted to the ESI Hospital where he died of bronchopneumonia at 3.10pm on Sunday.
Five more frontline workers tested positive, including a special police sub-inspector attached to Mettupalayam police station, a constable attached to Singanallur police station and a special branch officer attached to Thondamuthur police station. Two staff members from a primary health centre in Somanur also tested positive. The three police stations and the primary health centres were closed for fumigation.
The 140 cases also included a 32-year-old man from income tax quarters on Race Course, a probable contact of the chief commissioner who tested positive two weeks back. Many of the new cases were from the old parts of the district, including six people from Rangai Gowder Street, three patients each from Telugu Street, Big Bazaar Street and Telugu Street, two patients each from Mahavirjain Colony on Raja Street, Poomarket and Vysial Street.
A family of three from Rathinapuri including a four-year-old child, a family of three from Orchid Grandeur apartment in Saibaba Colony, one person each from Seeranaickenpalayam and NGGO Colony also tested positive.
The rural cases included five people from Malumichampatty, three from Pyarelal Agro company, two from Pallathur, six from Ranga Nagar in Periyanaickenpalayam, three from Kovilpalayam, four from Annur, among others.