Summary:
Chennai, Sep 14 (PTI): Tamil Nadu reported less than 1,600 new COVID-19 cases for the second day, adding 1,591 fresh infections pushing the overall caseload to 26,37,010 till date, while 27 people succumbed to the virus taking the toll to 35,217, the Health department said on Tuesday.
The state has been witnessing an increasing trend with regard to new infections over the last few weeks and was adding over 1,600 daily infections.
However, on Monday, the new infections fell to 1,580.
Meanwhile, recoveries marginally dipped when compared to the new cases with 1,537 people getting discharged in the last 24 hours, aggregating to 25,85,244, leaving 16,549 active infections, a medical bulletin said.
A total of 1,52,296 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, pushing the cumulative number of specimens examined to 4,45,27,080 till date.
As many as five districts comprised majority of new infections with the State capital leading with 212 cases, followed by Coimbatore (201), Erode (128), Thanjavur (119) and Chengalpet (116).