Coronavirus | Tamil Nadu records over 600 COVID-19 cases again

For the second day, Tamil Nadu recorded greater than 600 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. A complete of 685 individuals examined optimistic for the an infection and 5 died, taking the general tally of cases to eight,57,602 and the toll to 12,535.

Of this, Chennai accounted for 292 cases. Coimbatore and Chengalpattu adopted with 52 and 51 cases respectively. While 49 individuals examined optimistic for the an infection in Tiruvallur, Thanjavur had 37 cases. Kancheepuram and Tiruppur recorded 23 and 21 cases respectively. Other districts that had greater than 10 cases have been Dindigul (12), Erode (19), Salem (18) and Vellore (19).

There have been no new cases in Perambalur, whereas 25 districts recorded fewer than 10 cases every. The new cases included seven returnees — 4 from West Bengal, two from UAE and one from Uttar Pradesh.

With the contemporary cases, Chennai’s tally stood at 2,38,007, adopted by Coimbatore with 56,298 cases and Chengalpattu with 53,391 cases. The fatalities have been reported in Chennai (3) and Chengalpattu (2). This included two girls of their 50s. A 50-year-old girl from Chengalpattu, who had diabetes and hypertension, died on the Government Omandurar Medical College and Hospital a day after admission on March 8 resulting from pneumonia and acute respiratory failure, whereas a 58-year-old girl from Chennai with systemic hypertension died on the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital on March 9 resulting from pneumonia and respiratory failure. The variety of energetic cases elevated to 4,344, with Chennai accounting for probably the most at 1,940. Another 543 individuals have been discharged after therapy, taking the general tally of individuals discharged to eight,40,723.

In the final 24 hours, 65,945 samples have been examined. To date, 1,80,86,877 samples have been examined.