For instance, IMH street currently has 82 active cases,while Konnur High Road has 72. Driver Street in Pudupettai has 75 active cases.
Greater Chennai Corporation data as of May 13 show the city has 983 streets with more than 10 cases.
These are locations identified as containment zones with strict restrictions on movement. Close to 80% of these streets have only 10-19 cases each. And, 136 streets have 20-29 cases and 44 have 30-39 cases. Six streets have 50-59 cases, three have 60-69 cases, two have 70-79 cases and IMH street alone has 82 cases.
Teynampet (zone 9) has the highest number of streets with more than 10 cases (207); however, it has only one street with 50-plus cases.
In comparison, Anna Nagar has only 81 streets with more than 10 active Covid-19 cases, but it has three streets with more than 50 cases, including one each in the 70+ and 80+ category. Anna Nagar is the zone with the most active cases at 4,598.
Kodambakkam zone in central Chennai has the second highest number of streets with more than 10 cases (120). However, it does not have a single street with more than 50 cases. Majority of its containment zones have only 10-19 cases. Kodambakkam has the second highest number of active cases in the city at 4,214.
Ambattur, a zone that covers areas annexed to Greater Chennai Corporation limits in 2011, which has the third highest number of active cases in the city at 4,095.
Teynampet, which for a long time had the highest number of active cases in the city, is now fourth on the list with 3,746 cases.
Currently, only one zone in the city has less than1,000 active cases — Manali, which has only 806. It also has been doing well on the case fatality rate (CFR) metric, recording only 52 deaths so far and a CFR of 0.88%.
Shollinganallur, which has a CFR of 0.55%, thelowest among all zones in the city, now has 1,542 active cases.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/12-city-streets-have-50-plus-cases/articleshow/82667695.cms
