451 persons test positive for COVID-19; no fresh case in 2 districts
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Another 451 persons examined positive for COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday. While 470 persons had been discharged, seven extra succumbed to the an infection.
As on date, a complete of 8,46,026 persons have examined positive — 4,206 lively instances, 8,29,388 persons discharged and 12,432 deaths. There had been no fresh instances in two of the 37 districts — Perambalur and Ranipet.
Chennai recorded 149 fresh instances. This took the town’s total tally to 2,33,619. There had been 40 instances in Coimbatore, 31 in Chengalpattu and 38 in Tiruvallur. The remaining districts had lower than 20 instances every. These included Madurai, 10, Salem, 11, Thanjavur, 10, Tiruppur, 12, and Tiruchi, 10.
Two persons died in Chennai, whereas Chengalpattu, Krishnagiri, Tiruvallur, Thoothukudi and Vellore recorded one demise every. All of them had been aged above 60 and had co-morbidities. A 64-year-old man from Tiruvallur, with diabetes and hypertension, was admitted to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) on February 13. He died the following day owing to COVID-19 pneumonia, respiratory failure, septic shock and acute kidney harm. A 67-year-old man from Chennai, who had coronary artery illness, died on the RGGGH on February 14 owing to COVID-19 pneumonia, respiratory failure and reasonable left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
In the final 24 hours, 50,800 samples had been examined. So far, 1,68,63,820 samples have been examined. A non-public laboratory — Primegen Healthcare Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Madurai — was permitted for COVID-19 testing not too long ago.
There are 187 testing amenities in the non-public sector and 68 in the federal government sector.
The samples of two extra U.K. returnees, who had examined positive for COVID-19, returned positive for the U.K. variant of the novel coronavirus following Whole Genome Sequencing on the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, Bengaluru. According to the Health Department’s bulletin, to this point 11 persons — eight U.K. returnees and three of their contacts — examined positive for the U.K. variant. One of the U.K. returnees was underneath remedy in a separate isolation ward, and the remaining 10 persons examined damaging in the follow-up RT-PCR test as per the Standard Operating Procedure. They had been discharged and stored in residence quarantine.
On Tuesday, 21,029 persons had been vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19 in the State.
A complete 14,041 healthcare employees, 3,878 frontline employees and three,110 police personnel acquired the pictures. Till date, a complete of 2,90,046 persons have acquired the 2 vaccines obtainable in the State. Of them, 2,40,188 had been healthcare employees.
As many as 13,823 healthcare employees, 3,865 frontline employees and 2,977 police personnel acquired Covishield, whereas 218 healthcare employees, 13 frontline employees and 133 police personnel acquired Covaxin. The vaccination was carried out in 639 periods, with the full capability for the day being 83,134, in keeping with the each day report issued by the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. A complete of 16,609 persons acquired the primary dose, whereas the second dose was administered to 4,420 persons.
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