Tamil Nadu reports 2,516 cases; seventh consecutive day of over 2,000 Covid-19 positive cases

Chennai: With 2,516 fresh coronavirus cases on Tuesday, Tamil Nadu's Covid-19 count breached the 64,000-mark. The State's total tally stands at 64,603 and with 39 more deaths, the death toll has risen to 833, the media bulletin confirmed.

Tamil Nadu has been reporting more than 2,000 fresh cases of the infection for a week now and the number of active cases is 28,428. Of the fresh cases reported on Tuesday, ten patients who arrived in Tamil Nadu from abroad tested positive in the state. In addition to them, 28 passengers who arrived from other Indian states tested positive in the state as well.

Apart from that, a total of 35,339 patients have been discharged in all with 1,227 patients on Tuesday, the bulletin added.


Chennai continues to be the worst-hit district with 1,380 fresh cases in the state capital on Tuesday taking the number of cases in the city to 44,205. Of these, 39,897 patients are males, 24,686 are females and 20 are transgender patients.

There are 87 functioning Covid-19 testing facilities in the state so far out of which 41 are private while the rest are government-run. According to the media bulletin, 26,148 samples were tested on Tuesday and over 9.4 lakh samples have been tested till date.

On last Saturday, the state tested 33,231 samples, which is the highest number of Covid-19 tests conducted in a single day in Tamil Nadu.