Infection rate down to 8% from 54% in Tirupur, says min

Coimbatore: Urban development and water supply minister K N Nehru on Tuesday said the Covid-19 infection rate in Tirupur corporation limits had come down to 8.1% on Monday, from 54% on May 21. The number of cases too had plummeted to 275 from 1,035 during the period. He has advised the officials to continue with the containment measures.
“Of the 13,087 infected people in the corporation limits, 9,131 had recovered as on Monday. The locality has also seen 356 Covid deaths so far. There were 3,600 active cases and 78 containment areas in the corporation limits on Monday. The civic body has been conducting six to 20 fever camps daily, collecting about 2,800 samples,” the minister told the media after discussing the Covid-19 containment measures and other developmental works in the city with the officials.
Explaining that the corporation has deployed about 1,100 staff members to conduct door-to-door survey in its limits to identify the people with Covid-19 symptoms, he said they were also helping the symptomatic people with the right advise on whether to visit a hospital or Covid care centre.
The corporation has set up five control rooms –at the main and zonal offices - to attend to the inquiries on the lockdown and pandemic, and two consultation rooms to provide tele-counselling to the patients, the minister said. “Officials have collected Rs8.71 lakh as penalty from the people violating the lockdown norms.”
When asked about the vaccine shortage, Nehru said they had distributed all the doses in stock and another round supply was expected to reach the state in a week. “The vaccination drive will resume once the state receives its share of vaccine.”
The minister has also instructed the corporation officials to speed up works on the multi-level car parking, construction of bus stand, drinking water and underground drainage projects.
Meanwhile, revenue department officials sealed an export apparel company on Angeripalayam Road near Chettipalayam in Tirupur on the day for violation of the lockdown restrictions. “The state government has allowed the export units to function only with 10% workforce. The unit was with 81 of the 250 employees,” said a source.