Coimbatore Corpn. to cross verify COVID-19 results from private labs

Civic body is going in for early detection of cases to bring down the spread

Coimbatore Corporation is planning to verify at random the results of swab samples from private laboratories. Sources said the Corporation was forced to come to the decision to verify or cross check the results after it turned out that the number of positive cases reported by a few of the laboratories was far in excess of the results declared by either the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital or the Government Medical College and ESI Hospital. If the positivity rate was around 25 from the government institutions it was thrice that number from laboratories, the sources said and wondered how one set of institutions reported one set of numbers and the private laboratories another when the samples the Corporation took were from a neighbourhood.