‘Do not believe in rumours’
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AAA The Coimbatore Corporation that has been fighting to contain the COVID-19 spread has been forced to open another front – one to control the spread of rumours. On Thursday night, the civic body issued a release appealing to people to not give into rumours and spread unverified messages on social media platforms. It said rumours were being spread that a mutant of the SARS-CoV-2 was spreading fast in Nanjundapuram and that a greater number of people had died there.
The message said that of the 965 persons tested, 680 were found positive and 30 had died thus far. The samples of a few persons had revealed that they had a mutant of the virus and that the ICMR had even named the mutant as SARS-CoV-3 TNCBE.
Extrapolating the declining trend in Covid-19 cases in the district, the Health Department has predicted that fresh case tally would fall to three-digit figures by end of June.
Bodies of conservancy workers handed over to families
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Minor tension prevailed at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Wednesday after the families of the two conservancy workers who died in an accident at Ikkarai Boluvampatti village on Tuesday refused to accept the bodies. R. Palani (60) from Valluvar Street and M. Palanisamy (50) from Gandhi Nagar, Semmedu, died after the battery-operated three-wheeler they travelled along with seven others veered off the rod and plunged into a slope at Ikkarai Boluvampatti. Rasu (50), Marimuthu (55), Ammasai (65), Selvi (50), Marimuthu (55), Kamalam (65) and Arukkani (55) were injured in the accident that took place when they were returning home after doing conservancy works at Ikkarai Boluvampatti panchayat, said the police. The kin accepted the bodies after the police and Revenue Department officials held talks with them and pacified them.
Coimbatore: The fresh Covid-19 cases continued to plateau in the district, where 2,663 people were declared positive for the virus on Saturday, taking.