3 or more cases reported from 93 streets

Coimbatore: The district has reported 538 fresh Covid-19 cases on Sunday, taking the total number of cases to 18,955. The number of active cases in the district stood at 4,796.
Cases were reported from Singanallur, Ganapathy, Ramanathapuram, Sowripalayam, Amman Kulam, Uppilipalayam, Gandhipuram, among other areas, in the corporation limit Cases were also reported Karamadai, Sulur, Thondamuthur, Thudiyalur and Mettupalayam blocks, according to health officials.
The state media bulletin had reported five deaths that took place in the district on Friday and Saturday. With this, the death toll has increased to 328. On Sunday, 473 patients recovered and were discharged from hospitals and Covid care centre, taking the total number of people discharged from the district to 13,831.
Of the total Covid cases reported in the district so far, more than 85% were from the corporation limit, district collector K Rajamani told reporters in the city on Sunday. Of which, most of the cases were reported from the hotspots and identified through contact tracing and fever camps.
“The city corporation has been analyzing all the 5,971 streets in its limit. Of which, about 93 streets had reported three or more cases and close to 1,050 streets had reported less than three cases. Most of the streets falls in three zones – south, central and west,” the collector said.
“We are working on to increase the manpower to conduct door-to-door surveillance and to increase the number of fever camps being organized in the city,” he said. “Including the domestic breed checkers (DBC), the corporation has involved close to 1,800 workers in the door-to-door survey and each one will have to monitor 300 houses continuously to identify persons with symptoms. Even if a person covers 50 houses a day, he could finish a round in a week,” he explained.
By doing so, we would be able to identify a person with symptoms and subject him/her to testing, he added.
Tirupur reported 153 fresh cases on Sunday, taking the total number of cases to 3,459. The total number of active cases in the district stands at 1,079.
The bulletin had included four deaths that took place in the district between Friday and Sunday. With this, the death toll has increased to 80.