228 new cases take dist’s tally to 5,688; 233 recover

Coimbatore: The district recorded 228 new cases of novel coronavirus on Tuesday, even as 233 patients recovered and were discharged from the facilities they were undergoing treatment. While the district’s Covid-19 tally has touched 5,688, active cases now stand at 1,685. The district also recorded seven deaths, taking the toll to 85.
A vernacular daily photographer and his family members were among the new cases. He is the first one from the media field to contract the virus in the district.
The Annur police station was closed for the second time after seven officers tested positive for the virus. It was closed for fumigation in April when a sub-inspector tested positive.
RS Puram reported 10 new cases. While six of them, including a one-year-old baby, were from Srinivasa Raghava Street, the remaining were from Venkataswamy Road, Periyasamy Road and Kannuswamy Road. Uppara Street at Townhall, where a 67-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman tested positive for the virus, was completely cordoned off on Tuesday.
Lakshmipuram at Peelamedu also continued to see new cases, with three men testing positive for the virus from Chinnasamy Layout. Neighbouring Gandhimanagar also saw a case.
The remaining cases were spread across Selvapuram, Chetti Veedhi, Saibaba Colony, Seeranaickenpalayam, Periyanaickenpalayam and Puliyakulam, among other areas.
Among the dead was an 85-year-old man from Madurai who died after three days of hospitalization. Three others died within 24 hours of hospitalization in the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH). They comprise a 40-year-old woman, who came with seizures and severe breathing difficulty on Sunday and died the same day, a 75-year-old man who got admitted on August 2 and died the same night, and a 65-year-old man who was hospitalized on August 1 at 8.28pm died the next day at 8.15am.
CMCH also saw two more deaths - a 72-year-old man who was admitted on July 31 and died on August 2 and a 62-year-old man, who died of pneumonia on Sunday, a day after his hospitalization with breathing difficulty.
One patient succumbed to the virus in the ESI Hospital. He was a 69-year-old man with diabetes. He was admitted to the hospital on July 22 with breathing difficulty. He died on Sunday.