13 Tamil Nadu districts register marginal increase in fresh Covid cases – Times of India

Chennai News
CHENNAI: Fresh cases in Tamil Nadu dropped to 1,179 on Tuesday from 1,192 on Monday after 13 districts showed a marginal increase in fresh cases in the last 24 hours.
With 156 new cases Chennai continued to report the maximum number of new cases in the city. In the last 24 hours, cases have increased from 150 on Monday. While Coimbatore, which followed Chennai, had declined to 127 cases from 130 cases it reported on Monday.

The sharpest increase, however, was reported by Chengalpet, where fresh cases went up to 98 compared to 87 on Monday.
At least 23 districts reported fewer than 20 cases each, among these nine of them reported cases in single digits. While Virudhunagar reported three cases, Tenkasi and Ariyalur followed with four and five new cases each.
While the 16 deaths took the cumulative toll to 35,928, the total cases touched 26.89 lakh. At the end of the day, after 1,407 discharges, there were 14,326 people in the active cases list. Of the 16 deaths, there were three in Chennai, two each in Tiruppur and Trichy, one each in nine districts – Coimbatore, Salem, Namakkal, Thiruvarur, Nilgiris, Tirunelveli, Sivagangai, Villupuram and Perambalur. All other districts reported zero deaths.
Active cases in three districts Chennai(1771), Coimbatore (1506) and Chengalpet (1080) were in four digits. Tenkasi had 25 active cases – lowest in the state – followed by Peramablur (25).
Meanwhile 1.6 lakh people took the vaccines in TN on Tuesday. This took the vaccine dosage tally in the government centres to 5.1 crore. And 26.10 lakh people have taken the vaccine in private hospitals since May 1.

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