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ERODE: The steady rise in Covid-19 cases in the district means that the number of people in home quarantine has also increased in recent days. Several people, down with infection and unavailable to manage expenses without having access to work, have been struggling get good food. To help them tide over the crisis, two college students have come up with the idea of preparing food and giving it to them.
Gowtham Bharathi and Gayathri, studying Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, in Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, deliver food to around 20 people. Their friends help them out with logistics and there are plans afoot to expand their initiative.
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With the total COVID-19 cases nearing 13,000 in the district, the health department had, so far, lifted swab samples from 2.80 lakh people.
As on Thursday, a total of 12,926 positive cases were reported, with 391 persons continuing to be under treatment at the government and private hospitals.
A total of 142 deaths due to COVID-19 had been reported in the district. Health officials said that on an average swab samples were lifted from 2,000 persons in the district, including the corporation limits. So far, 2,80,411 people were tested, they added.
In the corporation limits, swab samples were lifted from the five urban primary health centres located at Karungalpalayam, Gandhiji Road, Surampatti Valasu and B.P. Agraharam.