Koyambedu market cluster is among the three main active COVID-19 clusters in the city of chennai and according to Special Zonal Officer J Radhakrishnan of Greater chennai Corporation, as of May 13, a total of 2,600 COVID-19 patients, spread across tamil Nadu, have been traced to this cluster.
Tamil Nadu has registered a total of 9,227 COVID-19 cases as on date and Koyambedu market cluster makes up 28.18% of this total. A total of 961 patients in chennai have been infected by directly visiting the market or by getting in contact with someone from the market. This accounts for 18.26% of the city’s total number of cases. As of april 13, chennai has a total number of 5,262 cases, of which 4,470 are active.
Around the end of april, chennai began witnessing the emergence of a new hotspot of novel coronavirus infection transmission. Koyambedu market cluster has now become a source of controversy in the state, especially due to the wave of infection it has led to. The chief minister of tamil Nadu, edappadi k palaniswami during his press meet on wednesday, held the market vendors responsible for the scale of infection the state is witnessing at present.
