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Coimbatore: The district recorded a slight dip in fresh Covid-19 cases with 963 new cases on Wednesday, taking the total number of cases to 76,259.
With 991 people getting discharged, the number of active cases dropped to 6,921. The district recorded two more deaths, taking the toll to 719. The two victims included a 33-year-old man, who died 12 days after testing positive despite having no comorbidities, and a 62-year-old diabetic man, who died six days after testing positive for the virus.
Coimbatore city corporation continued to account for 60.78% of the cases the district recorded in the last one week. Officials said 888 people in the city tested positive until Wednesday evening. Of the 3,608 active cases, 1,187 are under home isolation. West zone, including R S Puram, Saibaba Colony, Vadavalli, accounted for the most number of people under home isolation at 338, followed by the east zone, including Peelamedu, Sitra, Kalapatti Road among others, which has 234 infected people.
Coimbatore: A 19-year-old guest worker was arrested on Wednesday for attempting to steal money from an automated teller machine (ATM) of a public-sector bank by breaking it open at Nehru Nagar on Kalapatti Road here in the early hours of Monday.
The Peelamedu (crime) police identified the accused as M Mohammad Sahjad, a native of Saharsa district in Bihar.
A construction worker, he had been staying at a work site on Tex Park Road at Nehru Nagar for the past two years.
An investigation officer said the guest worker had visited the ATM of the State Bank of India (SBI) at Nehru Nagar around 1.50am on Monday and attempted to steal money by breaking the machine’s digital lock with a hammer. “While he damaged the digital lock, he failed to open the same and had to leave the place empty-handed.”