coimbatore sulur and thondamuthur blocks are the new covid19 hubs in the district and they account for the highest number of active cases and deaths from rural areas prompting the health department to ramp up fever camps and surveillance of industries there for early detection of positive cases to control the virus spread health officials have also identified covid19 hotspots within the two blocks to contain local transmission and bring down the numberspresently sulur block has the highest number of active cases 237 followed by thondamuthur block 170 the covid19 fatalities are also high from these areas while 15 people have succumbed to the virus in sulur block 13 have died in thondamuthur block so far together they accounted for 41 of covid19 deaths reported from rural areas where toll stands at 68 dr g ramesh kumar deputy director of public health said a month ago periyanaickenpalayam annur and madukkarai had the highest number total and active cases the scenario has changed and annur and madukkarai are logging cases in single digitsnow that the borders have opened up industries and people returning home seem to be the source of spread he saidofficials said they had identified covid19 hotspots within the two blocks to streamline containment measures better in sulur block they have identified eight hotspots including irugur kaniyur and pattanam in thondamuthur block they have identified 16 hotspots including gandhicolony kg garden city apartments and muniappan koil streetdistrict collector k rajamani said in sulur block the main source of infection seems to be places close to city corporation limits such as chinniampalayalyam irugur and rg pudur and industries in thondamuthur block too people get infected when they come to the city for work and shopping and they further transmit the virus in their locality we are also watching periyanaickenpalayam closelythe district administration has put the south revenue divisional officer incharge of prevention measures in sulur block we have decided to conduct fever camps near the identified hotspots doortodoor surveillance to identify people with flulike symptoms and comorbidities and trace and test contacts of positive cases without fail to control the virus spread the collector said