Udhagamandalam: The number of active Covid-19 cases in the Nilgiris has increased fourfold in the past 30 days to 266 on Thursday, from 61 on March 15.
District collector J Innocent Divya said the Nilgiris too had been witnessing a surge in Covid-19 cases, and the main contributors were the people with a travel history to neighbouring districts.
The district logged 39 new cases on the day, taking the tally to 9,065, of which 8,748 have recovered from the infection so far. Presently, there are seven containment zones in the district.
The positivity rate in the Nilgiris, which has done 3, 92,742 Covid tests, stands at 3%. On an average, 1,250 people are subjected to testing a day. As far as vaccination drive is concerned, 98,144 people have been inoculated till date.