Coimbatore: The number of active Covid-19 cases in the district dipped to 364 on Saturday, when 59 patients were discharged from treatment centres, even as it recorded 48 new cases. Of the 56,030 people who were tested positive for the virus in the district so far, 54,982 have recovered.
While the recovery rate continues to grow, the spike in daily cases is keeping health department officials on vigil. However, in a huge relief for them, the district didn’t see any new Covid-19 clusters emerging on the day.
The Covid-19 toll has, meanwhile, gone up in the district by one to 684.
Officials said the new cases were spread across the district. Dr G Ramesh Kumar, deputy director of public health, said there were no new cases from Saravanampatti and Thudiyalur clusters. “We haven’t seen any new area or family with more than three cases. Corporation officials have screened the neighbours of positive patients in those two clusters and traced their contacts, but none have tested positive. As such, the clusters aren’t growing.”
It was also the day when 3,359 people were vaccinated against Covid-19 in the district. The vaccination centres are administering the doses only between 9am and 5pm. “While the Union government has said vaccination could be done 24 hours, the CoWIN portal becomes inaccessible by 4pm-6pm, as the data collection for the day begins,” said a health department official.
The district has so far vaccinated around 33,000 workers, which is around 80% of the target. “Frontline workers, however, continue to hesitate to come forward to get inoculated. We have hardly achieved 25% of the target,” the official said.
A notification regarding allowing primary health centres and private hospitals to administer Covaxin is yet to reach the district.