Dist records highest 1-day death toll of 20

Coimbatore: The district recorded more than 3,000 Covid cases for the second consecutive day on Saturday, with 3,124 fresh cases, taking the total number of cases to 1,12,358.
With only 1,222 people getting discharged, the number of active cases crossed the 20,000-mark to 20,173. The district also recorded 20 deaths due to the virus, which is the highest ever number of deaths recorded officially on a single day since March 22, last year. With this, the toll jumped to 857. Recovery rate also dropped to a low of 81.2%.
Nine of them died despite having no co-morbidities. Of the nine, three were between below 40 years. While a 29-year-old man died two days after hospitalization at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, a 37-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman had fever and cough for six days and only then got hospitalized. Another six of them were in the 40-50 age bracket, of which only one had co-morbidities (thyroid).