Ambattur, Alandur zones record rise in active cases

Ambattur, Alandur zones record rise in active cases

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:14.08.2020

At a time when the number of active Covid-19 cases across zones of Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) is decreasing, Ambattur and Alandur zones are the only ones to record an increase in active cases over the last two weeks, corporation data shows.

Interestingly, these are zones which managed to buck the trend of a wide spread of Covid-19 during the months of April and May, but are now showing an uptick.

In fact, as on Thursday morning, Ambattur had the highest number of active cases (1,475) in the city. This forms 20% of the total cases in the zone so far.

Meanwhile, Alandur has 569 active cases which formed 15% of the case load so far.

While Ambattur had 1,266 active cases exactly two weeks ago, Alandur had 563, a minor increase of only six cases. This comes at a time when eight of the 15 zones have 10 or lesser percentage of active cases. These zones are Tiruvottiyur, Manali, Tondiarpet, Royapuram, TVK Nagar, Anna Nagar, Teynampet and Kodambakkam. The total number of active cases in the city is only 10,953 as on Thursday morning, which is only 10% of the total number of cases so far.

Official sources say that in Ambattur zone, the wards which are proving to be a headache for control are 80, 82, 83, 87 and 88. This includes the Padi area where many cases have come up, say sources. Around 300 cases in the last two weeks have been detected at the fever camps alone.

As a means of tackling this, Greater Chennai Corporation has started increasing awareness of fever camps in the city. This has meant that the average number of outpatients per camp in Ambattur is now the highest in the city.

Sources say that since this is an industrialised area, many of the infections are spreading through the factory workers.

In Alandur, officials say that the number of fresh cases being recorded everyday is dropping and the trend shows a decline in the spread, despite a slight increase in the number of active cases. Sources said that the number of active cases has dropped from 18% to 15% in two weeks.

As on Thursday morning, Ambattur had the highest number of active cases (1,475) in the city. This forms 20% of the total cases in the zone so far