Coimbatore: The district recorded 183 fresh Covid 19 cases on Wednesday, even when the active case was dipped to 2,525 with 306 patients running out of various treatment centers that day.
This district has the highest number of active cases in the state.
While the district has tested 2,27,467 positive people for viruses until now, 2.22,801 of them have recovered.
The recovery rate now stands at 97.9%.
The Covid-19 toll road has reached 2,141 with another patient who gave up on the virus in the district.
The testicitivity test test, meanwhile, dropped to 2.3% with only 204 of the positive 9004 sample testing for viruses.
The number of detention zones in the district also fell to 45 of 94 weeks ago.
While 20 of them were at City Corporation limiting the batamadai alone to contribute eight detention zones.
The remaining zones are spread around Thudiangur, tendrils and SS Kunam.
While the recovery rate increased, the survival rate of mucatorcosis (black mushroom) continued to be low.
Of the 427 people infected in the district, only 82 had recovered and returned home.
On Tuesday night, the former Tehsildar from Uthukuli Taluk lost his life on feared fungal infections at a private hospital in Tirupur.
Officials of the 53-year-old Department of Loss of Kimvathi have tested the positive Covid-19 in the last week of May and treated in the government eroded medical colleges and hospitals in Perundurai.
“He was referred to a private hospital in the Road at Tirupur after he developed symptoms of mukormycosis.
He died after two weeks of medical treatment,” said an official.
He was the first to die because of mukormycosis in tirupur since the pandemic hit.
While Tirupur has recorded 14 black mushroom cases, 13 was reported to have recovered.
Kalavathi has served taluk uthukuli as a Tehsildar from May this year.
He was medical leave since May last week after he tested the virus positive.