TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:07.09.2020
Covid cases recorded a marginal drop in Tamil Nadu on Sunday even as the state added 5,783 more infections to its overall tally. The number of people discharged (5,820) on the day was little higher than new cases, leaving 51,458 active cases undergoing treatment across the state. The total number of cases in Tamil Nadu stood at 4, 63, 480.
In a positive sign, Chennai continued to record less than 1,000 cases for the fourth consecutive day with 955 people, accounting for 16% of the fresh cases in the state, followed by Coimbatore which reported 538 new cases.
Cases were mostly from the urban parts of Coimbatore, with the civic body identifying 93 out of the 5,000-odd streets to have high concentration of Covid incidence. “We are working on increasing manpower to conduct door-to-door surveillance and to increase the number of fever camps being organized in the city,” said Coimbatore collector K Rajamani.
After days of sharp rise for the past few days, Cuddalore saw a drop in number of fresh cases to 388. So were Tirupur and Salem which recorded 153 and 122 cases respectively, much lower than the number of fresh cases these districts saw in the days that went by. In fact Salem was one of the very few districts witnessing a very high fluctuation in the number of fresh cases declared. On September 2, the district reported 403 fresh cases and the very next day cases dropped by 50% to 214. For the next few days, the cases hovered in the range of 200 and on Saturday it reported 250 cases before it plummeted to 122 on Sunday. “Till last week, the numbers were high as we have been tracing contacts of people who tested positive earlier. Now we have traced almost all the contacts and hence numbers have come down,” said R Sadeesh, Salem corporation commissioner.
However, northern districts like Chengalpet, Tiruvannamalai and Tiruvallur saw more cases than Saturday. The death toll too rose to 88 compared to Saturday, of which Chennai alone accounted for 17 deaths, while Coimbatore and Cuddalore reported five each.
The southern districts added 806 new Covid-19 cases to the region on Sunday, which took active cases in the region to 7,626. Tirunelveli reported the highest number of single-day cases at 132, while three other districts including Madurai saw over 100 new cases.
Though, Thanjavur topped the charts with a total of 150 new cases, in central zone, it was Nagapattinam which has emerged as cause for concern.
There is a steady spike in fresh positive cases in the coastal district in recent days. A total of 136 positive cases were reported on Sunday. Clearing backlogs of pending test results was the reason for the spike in the district, health officials said.
Central zone had the lowest number of fresh cases being reported from a district in Tamil Nadu with Perambalur logging just17 new cases.
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