Coimbatore: Twenty-six areas in the district have been identified as a micro detention zone after the covid-19 positive case sample of these regions has shown gene dropout.
“The micro detention zone has been declared around the places from which the alleged omicron variant of the case has been reported.
Transmission is expected to be more in these fields,” Deputy Director of Health Services Dr.
P Aruna said.
With an increase of almost 100 positive cases a day, the number of Daily Covid cases has increased from 309 on Thursday to 408 on Friday the district.
Samples of 13 positive cases have shown drop genes that day.
The district also registered two Covid deaths on Friday.
The arena from which these cases was reported to have been declared as a micro detention zone.
Dr.
Aruna said about 2-3 people from the family were testing positive, but this district had not watched the cluster area so far.
However, we can expect it in the coming days given the transmission rate.
There was a fourfold increase in positive cases in the last four days.
Twice the omicron variant is 1.5 to 3 days.
“If one person is infected, it can reach up to 70 people at a fast speed.
Consider the speed of the spread in Coimbatore, the possibility of omicron cases cannot be ruled out especially when the sample witnesses drop genes,” a senior health official from the Ministry of Public Health said.
Vigil has been tightened in a checkpoint bordering Kerala.
Some people found are not fully vaccinated and without the RT-PC test certificate are not allowed to enter the district.
The G s Ssyanan District collector said in a statement that the same thing would be continued in the coming days.
He asked people not to explore the mass meeting places except very important.
More than 50% of children in the age group 15-18 have been vaccinated so far in the district.
He was also asked to use mass vaccination drives on Saturday around 1,000 places in the district.