1,481 persons test positive, 2,275 recover
The Hindu
Test positivity rate at 14.93%
The district recorded 1,481 COVID-19 cases and 2,275 recoveries as the number of active cases fell to 12,703 on Monday. While the dip in daily caseload has been attributed to low testing during the weekend, the test positivity rate remained largely stable at 14.93%. A total of 9,916 people were subjected to COVID-19 tests. Among the new cases, six health care workers have also tested positive. The source of infection was unknown in the case of 89 people.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.