Coimbatore: The district continued to top the state in terms of fresh Covid-19 cases on Friday with 3,937 cases, taking the total number of cases to 1.
With this, the caseload crossed the 20-lakh mark to reach 20,09,700 till date and the toll of fatalities at 22,775, said the department. As many as 31,255 people walked out of healthcare facilities post-recovery aggregating 16,74,539 so far, a bulletin said. Active infections, including those in isolation, were 3,12,386.
Amid the surge in COVID-19 cases in Coimbatore, Minister for Medical and Family Welfare Ma. Subramanian said on Friday that all industries would be strictly monitored in the district from Saturday and
Civic body is going in for early detection of cases to bring down the spread
Coimbatore Corporation is planning to verify at random the results of swab samples from private laboratories.
Sources said the Corporation was forced to come to the decision to verify or cross check the results after it turned out that the number of positive cases reported by a few of the laboratories was far in excess of the results declared by either the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital or the Government Medical College and ESI Hospital.
If the positivity rate was around 25 from the government institutions it was thrice that number from laboratories, the sources said and wondered how one set of institutions reported one set of numbers and the private laboratories another when the samples the Corporation took were from a neighbourhood.