Less than 400 streets record fresh cases, containment zones down to 18

According to Chennai Corporation data, the city reported as many as 833 new cases on Thursday and those cases have been reported from only 398 streets. On August 16, new cases (1,196 cases) were reported from 820 streets, which is more than 50 per cent less than the streets with new cases on Thursday.

 Also, 200 out of 398 streets are located in the five zones of central Chennai region that comprises Thiru Vi Ka Nagar, Ambattur, Anna Nagar, Teynampet and Kodambakkam. North and South Chennai regions have 82 and 112 streets respectively with new cases. Among the zones, Kodambakkam has the highest number of streets with new cases (58). Anna Nagar and Adyar have 46 and 43 streets respectively with new cases.

 Meanwhile, the number of containment zones are also coming down as the city had only 18 containment zones on Friday morning. Manali and Royapuram zones had 5 containment zones each. Tondiarpet and Teynempet had two containment zones each. Anna Nagar, Kodambakkam, Adyar and Sholinganallur had one containment zone each. Other zones are free of containment zones. 

It may be noted that the civic body would convert streets in the city to containment zones if they report two or more index cases. After some relaxations, the civic body is now barricading containment zones for seven days instead of 14 days.

 As on Friday morning, more than 1.78 lakh COVID-19 patients had recovered, which is 92 per cent recovery rate, and 11,107 persons are still under treatment, which is 6 per cent. However, 3,569 persons had died.