CHENNAI: For the second consecutive day, Tamil Nadu reported close to 7,000 new Covid-19 cases.
After the state witnessed the highest-ever single-day spike in cases on Saturday when 6,988 people tested positive, another 6,986 samples returned positive on Sunday taking the state’s Covid-19 tally to 2,13,723.
The death toll touched 3,494 with 85 people dying. Of them, 10, including a 15-yearold from Thanjavur, had no comorbidities. Also, four of these 10 casualties were ‘brought dead’ to hospitals and samples taken later revealed that they died because of Covid-19.
Almost 45% of the deaths were reported in Chennai and its three neighbouring districts -- Chengalpet, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur. Together, the four districts accounted for 35% of the new cases with 2,499 people testing positive.
In Chennai, fewer cases were reported in old contamination zones and despite cases being reported from new areas, the daily case curve has not spiked for over a week now.
However, in other districts,cases areincreasing.Virudhunagar, which has reported a high number of in the past five days, registered 385 new cases on Sunday. Ranipet reported more than 300 cases.
Other southern districts such as Madurai, Dindigul, Kanyakumari, Tuticorin and Theni district had more than 200 new cases each. Tuticorin had 248 cases followed by Theni (217) and Kanyakumari (215).
A doctor from Rajaji Government Hospital in Madurai said, “We are witnessing a drop in late admission rate of Covid-19 cases. We are getting some additional time to assist patients recover.”
Corroborating this, official data suggested that only 28% of the deaths reported on Sunday got admitted to hospitals quite late, giving doctors less than 24 hours to treat them.
In the Trichy region, Thanjavur (153 cases) recorded the highest number of cases. With four more deaths, the region has so far recorded 117 fatalities. Coimbatore (220) and Villupuram (208) are other districts where the infection rate continued to remain high.
A total of 5,471 got discharged, leaving the number of active cases in the state at 53,703. The state’s testing rate continued to be high as 62,305 people were tested on Sunday at 116 labs.
Seventy-eight passengers from other states and countries positive at screening camps. A total of 5,237 passengers who entered TN have tested positive so far.
After the state witnessed the highest-ever single-day spike in cases on Saturday when 6,988 people tested positive, another 6,986 samples returned positive on Sunday taking the state’s Covid-19 tally to 2,13,723.
The death toll touched 3,494 with 85 people dying. Of them, 10, including a 15-yearold from Thanjavur, had no comorbidities. Also, four of these 10 casualties were ‘brought dead’ to hospitals and samples taken later revealed that they died because of Covid-19.
Almost 45% of the deaths were reported in Chennai and its three neighbouring districts -- Chengalpet, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur. Together, the four districts accounted for 35% of the new cases with 2,499 people testing positive.
In Chennai, fewer cases were reported in old contamination zones and despite cases being reported from new areas, the daily case curve has not spiked for over a week now.
However, in other districts,cases areincreasing.Virudhunagar, which has reported a high number of in the past five days, registered 385 new cases on Sunday. Ranipet reported more than 300 cases.
Other southern districts such as Madurai, Dindigul, Kanyakumari, Tuticorin and Theni district had more than 200 new cases each. Tuticorin had 248 cases followed by Theni (217) and Kanyakumari (215).
A doctor from Rajaji Government Hospital in Madurai said, “We are witnessing a drop in late admission rate of Covid-19 cases. We are getting some additional time to assist patients recover.”
Corroborating this, official data suggested that only 28% of the deaths reported on Sunday got admitted to hospitals quite late, giving doctors less than 24 hours to treat them.
In the Trichy region, Thanjavur (153 cases) recorded the highest number of cases. With four more deaths, the region has so far recorded 117 fatalities. Coimbatore (220) and Villupuram (208) are other districts where the infection rate continued to remain high.
A total of 5,471 got discharged, leaving the number of active cases in the state at 53,703. The state’s testing rate continued to be high as 62,305 people were tested on Sunday at 116 labs.
Seventy-eight passengers from other states and countries positive at screening camps. A total of 5,237 passengers who entered TN have tested positive so far.
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