Dist maintains declining trend, records 486 cases

Coimbatore: The declining trend of daily Covid-19 cases continued with the district logging 486 fresh cases on Friday, taking the tally to 2,20,493. With 904 people getting discharged, the number of active cases stood at 3,382.
The total number of people recovered grew to 2,15,053, taking the recovery rate to 97.5%. The district recorded seven deaths due to the virus increasing the toll to 2,058.
The seven victims included a 34-year-old man who tested positive on June 12 and got hospitalized on June 20 with complaints of fever and difficulty in breathing. He passed away on Thursday due to Covid-19 pneumonia.
Meanwhile, vaccination centres continued to remain a flashpoint for political parties to gain mileage out of the drive. On Friday, a verbal clash erupted between district BJP and DMK members in front of the vaccination centre at the Coimbatore Clothes Merchants Association Girls Higher Secondary School on Raja Street.
An officer with Variety Hall police station, who had to pacify both the parties, said the issue began with BJP members erecting a flex board in the school while vaccination was going on.
“The flex board thanked the new chief minister for implementing BJP government-initiated vaccination programme. BJP members claimed that they had a right to the claim as it’s a central government scheme,” he said. “However, DMK members accused them of trying to gain political mileage and demanded that the flex be removed,” he added.
Around 25 people from each party had gathered and began indulging in a verbal clash. “We pacified members of both the parties. School authorities filed a complaint against BJP members for erecting a flex without permission from them, the corporation or police,” he said.
Meanwhile, three more tribal people from Anamalai Tiger Reserve, in Tirupur district, tested positive for Covid-19.
The three tribals were a 55-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman from Mavadappu settlement and a 40-year-old woman from Kurumalai settlement.
Health department officials had totally tested 136 tribal people across four settlements, after a 31-year-old woman from Kulipatti tribal settlement tested positive after her delivery. “The three of them have been admitted to Udumalpet GH. We have also spoken to the tribal heads and instructed them to reach out for help if anybody else developed symptoms,” a health officer said.