Summary:
Chennai, Sep 5 (PTI): Tamil Nadu on Sunday logged 1,592 new Covid-19 infections pushing the overall tally to 26,22,678 till date, while 18 people succumbed to the virus, taking the toll to 35,018, the Health department said.
Recoveries were marginally higher compared to fresh cases with 1,607 people getting discharged in the last 24 hours, aggregating to 25,71,378 leaving 16,282 active infections, a medical bulletin said.
A total of 1,62,119 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, pushing the cumulative number of specimens examined to 4,31,17,256 till date.
As many as four districts comprised the majority of new infections with Coimbatore logging 229 cases, followed by Chennai (165), Chengalpet (127) and Erode 104 while the remaining was scattered across other districts.Thirupathur clocked the least by adding six cases.
Twenty-eight districts reported new cases in double digits, while there were no fresh deaths in 25 districts.
Among the 18 fatalities, 11 succumbed in government healthcare facilities while seven died in private healthcare facilities.