Fresh coronavirus cases fall below 3,000-mark

Coimbatore: The daily caseload in the district fell below the 3,000-mark after a fortnight on Thursday, when 2,980 people were tested positive for Covid-19.
The day also saw an all-time high of 4,546 patients getting discharged from various treatment centres, bringing the active Covid cases down to 37,505.
Of the 1,79,898 people who were tested positive for the virus in the district, 1,40,999 have recovered so far. The recovery rate has now slightly improved to 78.3%.
With the state listing another 48 Covid deaths that occurred in the district, the toll has gone up to 1,394. This (48) is the highest single-day fatality figure that the district has reported since the pandemic began last year.
Among the deceased were a 26-year-old man with learning difficulties who died on May 23 within 24 hours of admission to the government hospital at Udumalpet, a 35-year-old man who died in the same hospital on May 28 after four days of hospitalization, a 36-year-old man with systemic hypertension and chronic kidney disease who died within 24 hours of admission on Tuesday, and a 40-year-old woman, who died on Wednesday in the government hospital at Pollachi, where she was admitted on May 23, after eight days of home isolation.
The city corporation has, meanwhile, introduced 50 car ambulances to pick up people who test positive for the virus and need to visit either a hospital or a triage centre. One car ambulance has been allotted for every two wards. The ambulance service could be contacted by dialling 108. The ambulance will take the patients to the triage centre and drop them back home for home isolation or take them to a Covid care centre or hospital based on the advice from the triage centre. “We sincerely request the patients not to go to triage centres or hospitals in private vehicles,” the civic body said in a press note.