Nilgiris sees let-up in cases, just 2 test +ve

Udhagamandalam: There was a let-up in Covid-19 cases in the Nilgiris on Friday, when it logged just two new cases, taking its tally to 766. While the district has 132 active cases, 632 patients have recovered so far. The recovery rate stands at 82.5% in the district.
The new cases comprise a 47-year-old woman from Chinna Coonoor, who was a contact of an earlier patient with travel history to Kerala, and a 29-year-old woman from Archedin at Coonoor, who was a secondary contact of an earlier patient who attended a wedding at Ottupattarai.
According to the Nilgiris collector J Innocent Divya, at least five Covid-19 clusters in the district have been contained with aggressive contact tracing. “As part of containment measure, we are now concentrating on big villages such as Nanjanadu and Adhikaratty. Throat swabs from people with comorbidity and over 60 years of age are being collected for Covid-19 testing.”
Covid-19 patients with symptoms are treated at government hospitals in Ooty and Coonoor. If they show improvement in four to five days, they are discharged and advised home quarantine. Such patients would then be monitored by health officials, who would call them daily. In the case of asymptomatic patients, they are treated for 10 days in Covid care centres. They have to remain in home quarantine for 14 days after discharge.