Coimbatore: The district, which is reeling under severe drug shortage, recorded 1,509 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, when the tally jumped to 84,206 from 82,689 on Monday. With this, the number of active cases has touched a new high of 8,596.
With 1,105 patients getting discharged from various treatment centres, the number of recovered patients has increased to 74,877 on the day. Presently, the recovery rate stands at 88.9%.
The Covid-19 toll, meanwhile, rose by four to 733. This is the highest number of deaths to be reported in a single day in the second wave. Three of the victims - a 47-year-old man, a 55-year-old woman and a 62-year-old man – died of bilateral bronchopneumonia in the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital in three subsequent days starting Thursday last week. They didn’t have any comorbidities. The fourth victim was a 79-year-old hypertensive, diabetic woman who died on Thursday. Her sample tested positive for the virus only on Sunday.
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The Tamil Nadu Drugs Control Department is monitoring the sale and availability of the Remdesivir injection, one of the drugs used in the treatment of COVID-19. Any distributor or retailer involved in black marketing or hoarding of Remdesivir will face prosecution, officials have warned.
The rapid surge in COVID-19 cases across Tamil Nadu has turned the department’s attention to Remdesivir. Last year, private hospitals had raised complaints of non-availability of the drug and instances of it being sold for higher prices.
On its part, the department had suspended licenses of five medical shops in Madurai for selling the drug in the black market, officials said.