Chennai: In the past one week, the city has seen a spike in number of Coronavirus cases. In fact, containment zones like Royapuram, Kodambakkam and Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar had numbers steadily rising.
Zones with zero cases now have double digit numbers of patients with the infection. Royapuram continues to be the area with largest number of cases at 158. On 21 April, it was 92.
It maybe noted that on 26 April, Royapuram had 145 cases, but the following day, 13 new cases were reported.
Shockingly, Ambattur which has just two cases as on 26 April, now has 13 new cases. Until a week ago, Ambattur was one of the areas with zero cases.
The area-wise break up of Covid 19 patients in 15 districts was released by the Greater Chennai Corporation today.
Royapuram is followed by Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar with 94 patients, Tondiarpet with 66 cases, Teynampet with 56 cases and Kodambakkam with 54 cases.
Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar also saw a jump in number of affected persons with new nine cases in a single day. Anna Nagar which had 27 cases a week ago has as many as 53 cases. All zones under GCC now have corona cases.
The release said, Manali has just one case, while, Shollinganallur has two cases, Madhavaram has three patients, Perungudi has eight, Alandur has nine, Valsaravakkam and Adyar have 17 cases each. As per the data, there are currently 570 patients with the infection in the metropolis.