Over 70 residents of village in Tiruppur test positive
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Tiruppur Amid the aggressive second wave of COVID-19 in the State, the Health Department recently detected a cluster of cases in Karaipudur village panchayat in Palladam Block of Tiruppur district, where over 70 residents have tested positive.
According to Block Medical Officer N. Sudarvizhi, a woman aged around 60, who sold milk to the residents of N.S.K. Nagar in the village panchayat, tested positive last week. This caused the Health Department to organise a camp at the locality for lifting the swab samples of around 100 residents as part of the contact tracing process. “Out of the 100 samples, 76 turned out to be positive on Monday,” she said.