78 new cases, one death in Coimbatore
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Coimbatore district has 734 COVID-19 patients under institutional care, including the 78 new cases reported on Thursday.
The Health Department said 88 persons were discharged on Thursday and a 48-year-old woman died of the disease at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Wednesday. The woman was also suffering from diabetes and systemic hypertension and was admitted to the hospital on January 1. With this, the toll so far stood at 659.
Tiruppur reported 27 new cases, taking the district’s total tally to 17,292. A 55-year-old woman from the district died, taking the district’s toll to 220. As many as 16,798 have recovered and 274 were active cases. On Thursday, 30 patients were discharged.
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COIMBATORE: The district recorded 81 fresh Covid-19 cases and one death on Tuesday. While 86 people were discharged from government and private hospitals in the district, active cases stand at 738.
The total number of Covid deaths in the district has gone up to 657.
Though the health department has managed to bring down the number of Covid-19 cases to less than 90 a day, and deaths to an average of one person a day, the district continues to see deaths occurring within 24 hours of hospitalization. In December alone, nearly 20% of deaths occurred within 24 hours of hospitalization.
Of the 41 deaths due to Covid-19 recorded in December, eight occurred within 24 hours of hospitalization. Another seven deaths occurred within 48 hours of hospitalization, which means 36.5% of the deaths, or 15 out of 41, occured within two days of hospitalization. Nine out of 10 deaths have occurred in government hospitals.
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January 01, 2021 15:32 IST
Senior citizens must take adequate precautions and get hospitalised even if they experience mild symptoms, doctors said
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Senior citizens must take adequate precautions and get hospitalised even if they experience mild symptoms, doctors said
As apprehension over the spread of a variant strain of the COVID-19 virus continues into the new year, doctors and authorities stressed the importance of early admissions in hospitals for elderly patients, as they are more vulnerable to the virus.
“Any patient will recover [from COVID-19] if they are hospitalised on time,” said Deputy Director of Health Services (Coimbatore) G. Ramesh Kumar on Friday. Highlighting that the overall COVID-19 death rate of Coimbatore district was 1.24%, he noted that the death rate was declining. However, senior citizens must continue to take adequate precautions and get hospitalised even if they experience mild symptoms, Dr. Kumar said.
Coimbatore Vizah parade. (file photo)
COIMBATORE: The thirteenth edition of Coimbatore Vizha will start on Saturday and this time, due to the pandemic, most of the events will be conducted virtually.
Over the span of eight days, close to 100 events will be conducted as a part of the carnival.
With ‘hope and gratitude’ as the theme, the grand launch of the festival will include showering flowers on health workers at ESI hospital and Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) on Saturday.
Health minister C Vijayabaskar and municipal administration minister SP Velumani will inaugurate the festival.
“Considering the pandemic, we thought of skipping the festival for a year. But several organisations voted in favour of conducting the event. In order to make it safer, we decided to conduct it virtually. The Vizha is the celebration of hope, resilience and a tribute to the people who made the year 2020 safe for us,” said Jayaprashanth Jayachandran, chair of Young Indians (YI
Man killed in elephant attack in Coimbatore district
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December 28, 2020 14:24 IST
This is the 18th death due to an elephant attack in the Coimbatore Forest Division this year, officials said
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This is the 18th death due to an elephant attack in the Coimbatore Forest Division this year, officials said
A man working as a security guard was killed in an elephant attack on Maruthamalai Road, within the Coimbatore forest range, on Monday.
Forest Department officials said that Muhammad Niyas (65) was working as a security guard at a private building near the Government Law College on Maruthamalai Road. At around 6 a.m., he was walking on the road in search of a tea shop when he encountered a male elephant that had strayed into the residential area. The elephant pushed him to the ground, which led to his death, the officials said.