Dist records single-day high of 313 cases, three deaths

Coimbatore: In its highest ever daily tally so far, the district recorded 313 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday, taking the total number of cases to 3,775. As many as 202 patients were discharged, taking the total number of recovered patients to 2,131 with recovery rate of 56%. The number of active cases in the district also reached an all-time high of 1,602 patients. Three more deaths were recorded taking the toll to 42.
The state government has now revised its projection and predicts that the district will record 1,800 cases between Tuesday and Sunday night. If this happens, the total number of cases will surge to 5,575 cases on August 2.
The three deaths include a 62-year-old woman who got admitted at ESI on July 20, after her sample taken on July 18 tested positive. The woman who was hypertensive died on Saturday (July 25{+t}{+h}) due to severe pneumonia. Another 62-year-old man from Kaikolampalayam came to CMCH on July 24th with breathing distress. He was found having bilateral bronchial pneumonia due to the virus. He died the next morning at 10am. A 75-year-old man from Podanur was brought dead on July 24 to CMCH. His Covid-19 test sample came positive, and thus declared a Covid-19 death.
Monday’s positive cases include a 52-year-old staff from CMCH, three PMC staff members of 24x7 water supply project with the corporation who were shifted to CODISSIA Care centre on Sunday. It also includes a clerk, aged around 30, with the Railway Mail who tested positive for the virus on Saturday. On Monday, corporation workers disinfected and sanitized the mail office on the Coimbatore Junction premises. Since the office remain closed from Saturday, nearly 490 bags of mails are stuck in the office. “We hope we get to move the mail sacks at least on Wednesday,” an official said. People can’t book posts or parcels in the rail mail office as a result and will have to approach only the head post offices,” he said.
The list also includes the Pollachi municipality commissioner and five of his staff members. The commissioner and his staff members were reportedly infected by one of the engineers at the office, who tested positive earlier. Sources say that at least nine more people may have also been infected. The list had 16 people from Selvapuram.
R S Puram also continues to see more cases including six from Venkatasamy Road, a few from Poo Market, Sullivan Street and Robertson Road. Besides this, six more RAF personnel from Mahalingapuram, seven from Podanur, seven people from Al Ameen Colony, two Chinnammal Street at Saibaba Colony, four from Peelamedu, five from Kalapatti and 10 from Siva Sakthi Colony in Ganapathy have tested positive.