Health Minister inspects cluster areas in T Nagar

Health Minister Ma Subramanian inspected the COVID-19 cluster cases at Thirupura apartments in T Nagar on Saturday. He said that the cases are seeing an increasing trend in the world.

“In Kerala and Maharashtra, there are over 1,000 cases daily,” he said. “Over the past 3 months, there have been no deaths due to COVID-19 in TN. After declining to about 22 daily cases, the cluster cases emerged in educational institutions and that led to a surge in overall cases.”

Currently, there are no cases of COVID-19 at Sathya Sai Medical College and IIT Madras, while 23 cases are active in Anna University and 196 people tested positive at VIT Kelambakkam. Three have recovered and 193 are getting treated.

“Educational institutions should ensure that students follow all safety measures in common eating places and adhere to use of masks in the campus. Currently, there are 370 active cases in Chennai

and are being treated in home isolation. However, nobody is witnessing any severe symptoms and are recovering well,” pointed out the Health Minister.

He added that students travelling from other States are getting affected. “Though these students are vaccinated but the effectiveness of the vaccines must have reduced over time and mostly it is the Omicron variant cases, that spreads easily,” he clarified.

A family of 6 in Thousand Lights had tested positive. Officials from the State Health Department have visited the family, who are expected to be out of isolation in next three days.

Officials say that the need of the hour is to control family clusters across the city.

“Volunteers will be monitoring patients in the case of family clusters, and also assist them with essentials and medicines. Zone 9 and 12 are seeing an increase in cases. The contact tracing of such families will also be done,” Ma Subramanian said.