Increasing number of Covid-19 cases makes hosps busy again

Increasing number of Covid-19 cases makes hosps busy again

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:13.03.2021

Isolation wards and ICUs are busy again with increase in Covid-19 cases in the city its three neighbouring districts, officials said on Friday when TN reported 670 new cases and four deaths. The case tally crossed 8,58,272 and the cumulative death toll touched 12,539, with 4,483 people still under treatment.

Chennai, with 265 fresh cases and three deaths on Friday, is turning into a hotspot. Between March 5 and 11, on an average, it added at least 250 patients a day and reported two deaths compared to 180 cases and less than two deaths between February 26 and March

4. It has also seen a rise in positivity rate, active cases, hospital admissions and dip in doubling time for cases. The positivity rate, between1.4 and1.7 in February, is between 2 and 2.3 in March. The number of active cases, which dropped to 1,550 on February 9, was1,961 on Friday.

The directorate of medical education said there were 1,057 patients in Covid-19 wards in government hospitals across TN on Friday morning compared to 740 patients on March

5. During this period the number of cases in Chennai’s government medical college hospitals and attached intuitions rose from 340 cases to 650 cases.

The 750-bed Covid-19 wing at King Institute, which had 206 in-patients last week, had nearly 380 patients till Friday morning. By evening, the tally was

400. “Of the 400, 30 are in ICU, 20 are in wards with oxygen support,” said Dr K Narayansamy, who heads the hospital.

On Friday, there were 103 patients at Rajiv Gandhi Government, up from 75 last week. At Omanduarar Multi-Specialty Hospital, there were130 inpatients, said Director of Medical Services Dr R Narayanababu.

Many private hospitals have also registered an increase in admissions and a marginal increase in deaths over last week.

On Friday, after Chennai, the most cases were in Chengalpet (57), Coimbatore (51), Tiruvallur (44), Tiruppur (31) and Thanjavur (23).

Meanwhile, TN vaccinated 94,282 people including 34,455 senior citizens and 24,748 above age of 45 with comorbidities.

Positivity rate on rise in Puducherry

Puducherry:

The Covid-19 positivity rate of samples tested on Thursday jumped to 2.5% from 1.8% on Wednesday. Of the 1,202 samples tested, 30 returned positive. Twenty patients recovered in the last 24 hours as of 10am on Friday. TNN