Coimbatore reported 40 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, taking the district’s tally to 55,240.The Health Department did not report any deaths. The district saw 54,128 recoveries and 433 were active case
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COIMBATORE: Idhayangal Charitable Trust has given the latest insulin cartridges, pens, glucometer strips and a refrigerator (to store the cartridges) to a 12-year-old girl who suffers from type 1 diabetes and was recently admitted to Coimbatore Medical College Hospital in diabetic coma.
The child’s free insulin vials, given by the government, were losing potency because of not being refrigerated, because her family has no electricity connection.
Ramya, whose parents are daily wage labourers, had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a child. While she had been hospitalized several times earlier, the recent admission was with a life-threatening condition because her body began going into ketoacidosis which led to a diabetic coma.
COIMBATORE: Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami inaugurated the construction of a new building at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital through video .
Only Chennai continued to report over a 100 new cases. As many as 20 districts reported less than 10 cases, while Ariyalur, Pudukottai and Ramanathapuram reported zero cases on the day.