Three more test positive for Covid-19 in Thanjavur

TNN | Apr 8, 2020, 04.26 AM IST

Trichy: Three more people including a woman tested positive for Covid-19 in Thanjavur on Tuesday pushing the total number of people infected with the virus to 91 in the state’s central region. The positive cases include a 52-year-old man from Adhirampattinam and a 51-year-old man from Ammapettai, both Tablighi Jamaat delegates.

With the three cases, the number of total cases in Thanjavur touched 11, which includes one West Indies returnee from Kumbakonam.

In Trichy, the test results of the six more TJ delegates with Covid-19 symptoms are awaited at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH). It was expected to be released on Monday. The hospital has four more new patients with Covid-19 symptoms.

MGMGH had 30 positive cases – all of them from a Delhi event. The hospital is also providing treatment to one Covid-19 patient each from Erode, Karur, Ariyalur and Perambalur. Trichy district administration said all of them were stable.

Trichy district administration said that none of the family members/ close contacts of the 30 Covid-19 patients in Trichy showed symptoms. “I have visited Puthanatham and Thuvarankurichi areas. No family members are showing Covid-19 symptoms,” Trichy collector S Sivarasu told ToI this evening.

The collector also said that he has ordered for taking samples of a 73-year-old woman and a 20-year-old pregnant woman in the area. “I have asked the health department to concentrate on aged people and high risk people in the families of the affected people to ascertain their status,” said the collector. As on Monday, 84 patients including 69 people who attended the Delhi event tested negative.