Coimbatore: The number of active Covid-19 cases in the district has been on the decline for the past two weeks, when the daily spike was lesser than the number of patients getting discharged from treatment centres.
Things weren’t any different on Thursday, when the district logged 285 new cases of Covid-19, taking the tally to 40,982, even as 290 patients were discharged. The active cases now stand at 3,753, while 36,701 have recovered from the virus infection. The recovery rate has further improved to 89.5%.
The Covid-19 toll, meanwhile, rose to 528 with the state including one more death that occurred in the district two days ago in the bulletin. The deceased was a 59-year-old diabetic man, who was admitted to the ESI Hospital on Saturday afternoon. He died of pneumonia, diabetic keto acidosis and brain damage on Tuesday night.
It was also the day when the Covid-19 death rate fell to an all-time low of 1.28%, closer to the target of 1%.
Officials, however, admitted that many deaths were occurring in hospitals. In some cases, they said, patients die after testing negative for the virus, but because of the complications, including pneumonia, triggered by the virus. An officer said, “Such deaths are not recorded. It is up to the hospitals to notify the cause(s) of death correctly and mention it.”