Tamil Nadu logs 1,245 new cases of Covid, 16 deaths – Times of India

CHENNAI: The number of new Covid-19 cases has continued to drop in Tamil Nadu.
On Friday, the state added 1,245 new cases and 16 deaths to the Covid-19 registry.
At the end of the day, 1,442 patients got discharged and there were 15,238 people under treatment for the viral infection.
Chennai, with a test positivity rate (TPR) of 0.8 percent, once again topped the state’s infection chart with 167 new cases.
Coimbatore with a slightly higher TPR of 1.4% remained the second-most affected district with 139 getting infected in the last 24 hours. TN’s overall TPR remained unchanged at 0.9 % for the past one week.
As far as vaccinations are concerned, there has been a gradual drop in the number of people getting inoculated this week. From 1.3 lakh during the start of the week, it dropped to 54,573 on Friday.
Health Minister Ma Subramanian attributed the drop to the festive season and announced that there will be no mass vaccination camp this Sunday.
The state, through five consecutive mass camps on Sundays managed to inoculate more than 1.1 crore people.
“Special plans are being devised to organise the sixth camp as people, who are due to take their second dose, will be prioritised.
We are confident that at least 20 lakh such people will be vaccinated through that camp,” said Subramanian.