Dist logs highest single-day spike of 484 cases, 10 deaths

Coimbatore: The district recorded its highest ever single-day spike in Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, when it reported 484 new cases, taking the tally to 12,954. It was for the first time the daily count, which was hovering around 390 for more than a week, touched and crossed the 400-mark in the district.
At least 359 patients were discharged from the facilities they were undergoing treatment in the day. With this, the number of active cases in the district stands at 3,250.
The district also recorded 10 more deaths, taking the toll to 262. According to the state bulletin, two patients died within 24 hours of hospitalization and another one, a 51-year-old man, who died in the ESI Hospital had no comorbidities.
With the city corporation limits continue to account for more than 90% of the daily novel coronavirus cases, local administration minster S P Velumani has asked the civic body to start street-wise analysis to identify the ones with more number of cases.
Civic body officials said they had been recording cases street-wise. Dr Raja, city health officer, said, “We have always had data on the number of Covid-19 cases from each street in the city.”
He said tracing the source of infection in densely populated areas such as Ukkadam, Selvapuram and Karumbukadai was not viable. “We can try going door to door to find people with flu-like symptoms and make them undergo Covid-19 testing. Many people are not coming to fever camps on their own. But at this point, finding source of infection is not easy.”
There are, meanwhile, complaints from people about lack of facilities at the fever camps. People at Mettupalayam have already raised the need for a shamiana or shelter for them to wait in queue since the past few days have been extremely hot. On Puliakulam Road, people said they had to wait for more than an hour at the fever camp on Wednesday for the team to come and collect their nasal swabs.