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CHENNAI: Active cases in Tamil Nadu on Monday touched 5,149, crossing the 5,000-mark after nearly 51 days. While 836 fresh cases were reported across the state - highest in 67 days - in the worst-hit Chennai, the count crossed 300-mark for the first time this year to touch to 317. The city s active case count stood at 2,023 on Monday.
On January 23, active cases in the state dropped to 4,984 cases for the first time since May, 10, 2020. Cases continued to fall until the second week of February when reports about fresh clusters started emerging almost every day from Chennai, Chengalpet, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Coimbatore, Tirupur and Thanjavur districts.
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CHENNAI: As active Covid cases have come down to 0.5 per cent in the State, focus is now on expanding vaccination target groups. While the Greater Chennai Corporation on Tuesday said election officials and media persons would be eligible to get the vaccine, public health experts say that it is high time the target groups are expanded to senior citizens and vulnerable population. Ever since the State allowed frontline workers receive the jab, the beneficiary numbers rose by more than 50 per cent.
From a daily 6,866 beneficiaries on February 1, the numbers rose to 21,645 on February 15. Public health experts say that it is important to immediately include senior citizens and vulnerable populations to the beneficiary list as the State still continues to record deaths in single digits with mostly senior citizens succumbing to the virus.
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Will pre-exposure to Covid protect us from newer strains?
While the UK has entered into a second lockdown, people here also fear of the new strain possibly causing reinfections.
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CHENNAI: The new strain of Covid-19, which is suspected to be 70 per cent more transmissible than the current one, may not have much impact on those who have already been exposed to the current strain, say experts.
Thes state, which was starting to lower its guard after bringing down the cases considerably, tightened measures when the new strain originated in the United Kingdom, and a passenger who landed in Chennai from the country tested positive.
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