Coronavirus in Tamil Nadu: Death toll crosses 1,000

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu reported 68 Covid-19 deaths on Saturday. With these, the death toll reached 1,025 in the state.
Chennai reported 46 deaths while seven each were in Madurai and Chengalpet, three in Tiruvallur and one each in Villupuram, Erode, Virudunagar, Dindugal and Sivaganga districts.
Three men—aged 65, 42 and 50 years – were declared “brought dead” by doctors in Government Royapettah Hospital on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
The state added 3,713 fresh cases, including 1,939 cases in Chennai, which took the total number of cases to 78,335.
Barring Virudhunagar, all districts recorded fresh cases. Five of them reported a three digit rise.
Chennai’s neighbours Chengalpet and Tiruvallur reported 248 and 146 cases respectively. Kancheepuram was two short of 100.
Madurai logged 218 cases. Vellore reported 118 cases and Tiruvannamalai registered 127 cases.
Ramanathapuram and Ranipet recorded 93 and 96 cases respectively.
Of the fresh cases, 81 are returnees from other states and countries. Eight of them were passengers from abroad -- two each from Saudi Arabia and Singapore and one each from Malaysia, the Maldives, Qatar and Ukraine.
Among domestic passengers who came by flight, road and train, there were 40 from Karnataka, 11 from Kerala, eight from Telangana and five from Maharashtra. Others were from Gujarat, Delhi, UP, MP, Uttarakhand, WB, Odisha, J&K, Bihar and Puducherry.
At the end of the day, 33,213 people, including 19,877 in Chennai, were still being treated for the viral infection.