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Central districts report over 300 fresh cases
The Hindu
The central region reported 304 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Sunday. The number of patients who reported positive across the region remained largely unchanged. Three deaths were reported in the region -
The central region reported 304 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Sunday. The number of patients who reported positive across the region remained largely unchanged. Three deaths were reported in the region - two deaths were reported in Tiruchi and one each in Nagapattinam and Thanjavur. Thanjavur reported the highest number of cases in the region with 115 testing positive. The district seemed to reflect a slight upward trend in the number of fresh cases reported. Tiruchi, meanwhile, reported 46, and Tiruvarur, 44. According to official sources, 14 patients were discharged from Tiruchi Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital on Sunday after recovering from the viral infection.![](/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.