Chennai/Coimbatore: With Coimbatore, the city that built a temple for ‘Coronadevi’ suffering from huge number of Covid-19 cases, all eyes are on the ‘Manchester of South India’.
Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday wore a PPE suit over his traditional white shirt and veshti to visit patients inside a Covid-19 ward at ESI Medical College and Hospital in Coimbatore district. He interacted with the patients as well as doctors and nurses treating them.
He said that his government was not ignoring Coimbatore with regard to Covid-19 management. The government treated all districts equally, he said, countering the charge that the western district was being overlooked for political reasons.
Stalin, who earlier visited a Covid-19 ward at a city hospital dressed in a PPE suit, pointed out that the second highest vaccinated district after Chennai was Coimbatore.
“As many as 5.85 lakh people have been vaccinated in Coimbatore. Of them, 1.51 lakh were vaccinated after the DMK returned to power on 7 May,” he said on a day when the hashtag, #GoBackStalin, trended on Twitter, before being overtaken by #WeStand WithStalin.
Meanwhile, the case count had come down in the last two days in the district as the administration is taking all steps to control the spread of the infection. More measures are in the pipeline, said officials.
The Coimbatore Corporation had 631 areas under quarantine in the city and the district administration 302 localities in rural areas. The administration had vaccinated three lakh people in the last couple of weeks and lifted samples for RT-PCR testing from 1.70 lakh persons.
Coimbatore district, which tops the State in fresh infections, reported a marginal drop in the number on Sunday, with 3,537 people testing positive.
As many as 3,275 people were discharged and 47 persons died of the infection. At present, 39,047 people are undergoing treatment.