Tamil Nadu Covid-positive cases surpass 3000 mark

Tamil Nadu reported a massive spike in Covid-19 cases on Sunday with the State reporting 266 cases and taking the total tally of cases to 3023. Chennai accounted for 203 of the 266 cases on Sunday.

The number of children below the age of 12 who have tested positive stood at 170 on Sunday, the media bulletin confirmed. Of the 3023 positive cases, 2015 are male, 1007 are female and one is a transgender patient.

Chennai is the worst-hit district in the State with the total number of cases standing at 1458. Coimbatore has the second-highest number of cases in the State with 146 cases.


The number of active cases in the State stands at 1611. One more death was reported on Sunday taking the death toll to 30 in the State, the bulletin confirmed.

On Sunday, 38 patients were discharged taking the total number of recoveries in the State to 1379.

So far, 1,50,107 samples and 1,40,716 persons have been tested. There are 1,564 samples pending in the State.