On the second day, Tamil Nadu on Thursday registered more than 600 new cases of COVID-19. A total of 685 individuals tested positive for the infection and five died, taking the total number of cases to 8,57,602 and the toll to 12,535.
Of this, there were 292 cases in Chennai. Coimbatore and Chengalpattu followed with 52 and 51 cases respectively. While 49 people tested positive for infection in Thiruvallur, Thanjavur had 37 cases. In Kanchipuram and Tiruppur, 23 and 21 cases were reported respectively. Other districts with more than 10 cases were Dindigul (12), Erode (19), Salem (18) and Vellore (19).
There were no new cases in Perambalur, while 25 districts reported fewer than 10 cases each. The new cases include seven returners – four from West Bengal, two from the UAE and one from Uttar Pradesh.
With the latest cases, Chennai matched at 2,38,007, followed by 56,298 in Coimbatore and 53,391 in Chengalpattu. The fatal attacks occurred in Chennai (3) and Chengalpattu (2). This included two women in their 50s. One day after admission on March 8 due to pneumonia and acute respiratory failure, a 50-year-old woman from Chengalpattu, who had diabetes and high blood pressure, died at Government Omanandur Medical College and Hospital. On March 9, Rajiv Gandhi died of systemic hypertension due to pneumonia and respiratory failure at the Government General Hospital. The number of active cases increased to 4,344, with Chennai accounting for the highest at 1,940. Another 543 persons were discharged after treatment, a total of 8,40,723 were discharged.
In the last 24 hours, 65,945 samples were tested. To date, 1,80,86,877 samples have been tested.
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