1,320 more test positive for infection

As many as 1,320 more individuals examined positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, taking Tamil Nadu’s case tally to 7,90,240. Among them have been two individuals who returned from Jharkhand and one every from Bihar, Maharashtra and Odisha.

With the discharge of 1,398 individuals after therapy, 7,67,659 individuals have walked out of assorted well being services all around the State up to now. The variety of energetic instances, together with these underneath isolation, is 10,788.

Fatalities in State

In the previous 24 hours, the State recorded 16 deaths, together with 11 at personal hospitals and 5 at authorities services.

So far, 11,793 individuals have died of the infection.

Perambalur district recorded no contemporary infection. Seven districts reported instances in single digit. Chennai and Coimbatore reported the best variety of contemporary instances. Chennai district recorded 346 instances and Coimbatore 139.

Chennai recorded 4 deaths. With the discharge of 413 individuals, 3,257 sufferers are underneath therapy or in isolation.

So far, 2,17,542 positive instances have been recognized in Chennai and a couple of,10,410 individuals have been discharged. The district has recorded 3,875 deaths.

All those that died within the final 24 hours have been aged over 60 years, with pre-existing circumstances. So far, 1,02,151 individuals aged above 60 have been contaminated.

The demise of 11 individuals at personal hospitals and of 4 at authorities medical school hospitals have been recorded as having occurred owing to the infection.

A 67-year-old man from Coimbatore, who had Type 2 diabetes and hypertension, died of the infection on the Coimbatore Medical College and ESI Hospital. He had been admitted on the afternoon of November 29 after testing positive for COVID-19. He died on Saturday. The hospital recorded COVID-19 pneumonia, acute respiratory misery syndrome and respiratory failure as the reason for demise.

Two nonagenarians, one aged 92 and the opposite 94, died of the infection.

A 94-year-old man was admitted to a personal hospital at Thoothukudi with complaints of fever, issue in respiration, free stools and malaria. He examined positive on December 3.

The hospital recorded that he was hypertensive. His demise was owing to acute respiratory misery syndrome and COVID-19 pneumonia, the hospital authorities have mentioned.

Of the 19,34,775 individuals who had entered the State by numerous routes until Saturday, 6,799 have examined positive, the every day bulletin issued by the Directorate of Public Health mentioned.